English Dictionary

after the Lord Mayor's show

前置詞句

慣用表現

(idiomatic) Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event.

日本語の意味

感動的で盛大な出来事の直後に、期待外れや平凡な出来事が続く様子を表す表現

The charity auction after the Lord Mayor's show was a rather sober affair, a letdown after all the earlier pageantry.

盛大な市長の行列の後の慈善オークションは、さっきまでの華やかな見せ物に比べるとずいぶん地味で期待外れだった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event.

as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that "after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,