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second banana
noun
a person in a supporting role US, 1953- — American Speech, February 1956
- The television experts wonder where Imogene Coca’s reconciliation with Sid Caesar will leave Sid’s second bananas, Howard Morris and Carl Reiner. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 31 July 1957
- Not long ago, Art Carney was the most popular second banana on television as the sewer man on the Gleason Show. — Life, p. 53, 9 May 1960
- For years one of the most formidable second bananas in the comedy spectrum, Louis Nye comes into his own and attains premium solo status in his current nitery act. — Variety, p. 10, 23 May 1962
- The actor was not the leading-man type, a second banana, maybe. The guy that doesn’t get the girl, hard as he tries. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 144, 1993
- Sid [Vicious] could be John’s suicidal second banana, eliminating the need for Johnny [Rotten] to carve his own flesh[.] — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 373, 2001
- Elsa never quite gained top billing to carry an X-rated flick by herself, but figures nicely as a second banana. — Josh Friedman, When Sex Was Dirty, p. 96, 2005
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