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putting on the ritz
adjective as in gaudy
Example Sentences
Inflation changes everything: Today, “going to the dogs” is closer in meaning to “putting on the Ritz” amid skyrocketing costs for dog food.
After college, he spent a decade in Toronto, developing a style of piano he described as “two-handed mash-ups of, for instance, ‘Stairway to Heaven’ with ‘Putting on the Ritz,’ or Ravel’s “Boléro” with ‘Take Five.’
There was a sense of living it up – of putting on the Ritz, in the words of Irving Berlin.
Crossing Young Frankenstein item withthe viral legal letter story Tune of Putting on the Ritz Though he'll sue for lots of dough Your legal crew worked like a pro and gave him fits Counting up your hits Record time how very sweet Numbers climb as people tweet to pick their nits Counting up your hits Read by folks from Putin to Onama Parsed for each apostrophe and comma Oh what.
He and the monster, in tuxes, singing and dancing to “Putting on the Ritz” might sum up Wilder, in all his bizarre glory, more than any other scene.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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