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A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

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dueling banjos

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dueling banjos

Noun

plural plural-only

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

Japanese Meaning

二人の演奏者が互いに技術や音楽表現を競い合う、演奏技術の対決

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郡の祭りで、夕方の観客は二人の古い友人が激しいバンジョー対決を始めると大きな歓声を上げた。

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A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

The current discussion of choice in education has been driven by this dueling banjos mentality in which scholars and other intellectual entrepreneurs compete for public and intellectual attention by describing the conditions they want to create.

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Something typical of a stereotypic hillbilly; Something characterized by lack of education, poverty, inbreeding or lack of sophistication.

The name "Appalachia" evokes a host of popular images and stereotypes: feuds, individualism, moonshine, subsistence farming, quilting bees, illiteracy, and dueling banjos, to name just a few.

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