parade : Idioms & Phrases

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callithump parade

  • noun a noisy boisterous parade
    callathump; callithump.
WordNet

Dress parade

  • (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review.
Webster 1913

Dress parade, Undress parade

  • . See under Dress, and Undress.
Webster 1913

hit parade

  • noun a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind
  • noun a ranked list of the songs that are most popular at a given time
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parade ground

  • noun an area for holding parades
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Parade rest

  • a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm.
Webster 1913

sick parade

  • noun the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick
    sick call.
WordNet

ticker tape parade

  • A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete.
Webster 1913

Undress parade

  • (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
Webster 1913