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Idiom

ringside seat

Meaning

Any vantage point providing an excellent view.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We have a ringside seat for the fireworks from our balcony.”

“Because our office is right next to the construction site, we have a ringside seat to the whole project.”

“From his ringside seat in the gallery, the historian observed the political drama unfold with a mixture of fascination and dread.”

Examples

simple

“We have a ringside seat for the fireworks from our balcony.”

contextual

“Because our office is right next to the construction site, we have a ringside seat to the whole project.”

complex

“From his ringside seat in the gallery, the historian observed the political drama unfold with a mixture of fascination and dread.”

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