grandstand play
Example Sentences
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This isn’t a grandstand play on my part; I’ve discovered—and you can see it in other entertainers—when they don’t reach out to the audience, nothing happens.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2012
Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week "100%" Nichols made what looked like his last possible grandstand play short of shutting down completely.
From Time Magazine Archive
He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play.
From Time Magazine Archive
So leave me alone with your last big efforts—and grandstand play for glory.
From Stand by for Mars! by Glanzman, Louis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
