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boards
noun- the stage; live theatre UK, 1768
Always after the definite article. - There’s still a lot of tradition in The Police; we’re still on the boards and we go through a lot of showbizzy things. — Sting (Gordon Sumner), Ask, p. 112, 12 April 1980
- De Niro! Pacino! Only the serious artists work on the boards! — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 92, 1992
- skis CANADA
Probably from the fact that early homemade skis were sometimes shaped from planks. - — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 17, 1989
▶ on the boards
in solitary confinement US- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 42, 1976
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