English-Dutch translations for pantomime

  • pantomimeWaarom blijft u dan vasthouden aan deze charade - dit pantomime - en praat u nog steeds onnodig in het Grieks? Why, therefore, do you persist in this charade - pantomime - of speaking this unnecessary Greek? Als landgenoot heeft hij geleden onder de pantomime van misleidende druïdische nonsens die voor een Britse grondwet doorgaan. As a compatriot of mine, he has suffered from the pantomime of misleading Druidic nonsense which passes for a British Constitution. Landen buiten de EU zullen zich daarentegen niet hoeven te onderwerpen aan de "pantomime van de Enten" van De Groenen, als u zich deze wezens uit The Lord of the Rings nog herinnert. By contrast, countries outside the EU will not be subject to the Greens' Pantomime of the Ents, if you remember those characters in the Lord of the Rings.

Definition of pantomime

  • A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.
  • The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
  • Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
  • To make without speaking
  • To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.

Examples

  • I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.

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