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Funfair and circus vocabulary - AIRC435

Aprender ingles with Reza and Craig

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Is That a Clown in the Circus?

The expression, Reza, send in the clowns originally comes from the theater. So there were clowns waiting to come in to draw people's attention away from the fact that the performance wasn't going well. Do you think clowns are scary? In a way, yes. I've always found them a mixture of funny and scary. That's kind of the idea. When they get up close to you, sometimes, and their face is close to yours, you think, Oh, wow, he's a bit scary. But then they'll do something like they'll produce a custard pie. They'll like stick it in your face or somebody else's face. And then you

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