English Dictionary

grandstand play

名詞

慣用表現 広義

(idiomatic, sports) A successful play or other manoeuvre during a sporting competition in which one or more players shows off unnecessarily in order to entertain or impress the spectators.

日本語の意味

スポーツ競技において、観客を楽しませたり感心させたりする目的で、選手が必要以上に自らをアピールする（または豪華に演出する）成功したプレーや作戦。 / 試合中に見せ場を作るための、意図的な派手なプレイ。

The coach benched him after that grandstand play cost the team possession in the final minutes.

あの見せびらかしのプレーが最終盤にチームのボールを失わせたため、監督は彼をベンチに下げた。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, sports) A successful play or other manoeuvre during a sporting competition in which one or more players shows off unnecessarily in order to entertain or impress the spectators.

Instead of throwing it to center, however, she tried to make a grandstand play and threw it the entire length of the gymnasium to the waiting forward.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) An action or stratagem that is excessively dramatic or sensational and that is intended to appeal to members of the public or to a particular audience.

He goes strike-breakin'. Grandstand play, that's what I call it. Gets his name in the papers an makes all the skirts he runs with fluster up an' say: ‘My! Some bear, that Roy Blanchard, some bear.’

grandstand plays （ plural ）