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kitchen-sink drama — [kitchen sink drama] noun [C, U] (sometimes disapprov) a type of British play or plays of the 1950s and 1960s which showed the conflicts or unpleasant quality of home life in a realistic way. Typical examples are John Osborne s ↑ … Useful english dictionary
kitchen sink drama — kitchen sink .drama n BrE a serious play or film about problems that families have at home … Dictionary of contemporary English
Kitchen sink drama — Kitchen Sink Realism (Spülbecken Realismus) war eine englische kulturelle Bewegung in den späten 1950ern und frühen 1960ern. Die Richtung existierte sowohl im Theater, als auch in der bildenden Kunst, Filmen und Fernsehen. Der Ausdruck kitchen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
kitchen sink drama — n. form of British drama that portrays the working class life … English contemporary dictionary
kitchen sink drama — noun (C) BrE a serious play or film about problems that families have at home … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Kitchen sink realism — was an English cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays. It used a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic squalor working class Britons living in… … Wikipedia
kitchen-sink — (UK) Kitchen sink drama deals with ordinary people s lives … The small dictionary of idiomes
kitchen-sink — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective 1. chiefly Britain : portraying or emphasizing the squalid aspects of modern life the kitchen sink realism of contemporary British drama Current Biography 2. : being or made up of a hodgepodge of disparate elements or… … Useful english dictionary
kitchen-sink — British & Australian a kitchen sink play, film, or style of painting is one which shows ordinary people s lives. Kitchen sink drama came into fashion in the 1950s. (always before noun) In his latest work, he is moving away from kitchen sink… … New idioms dictionary
kitchen-sink — (UK) Kitchen sink drama deals with ordinary people s lives. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
