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The word "sideshow" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a minor attraction at a fair or carnival, such as acrobats, clowns, fortune-tellers, or wild animals, or it can refer to a secondary activity or topic that is less important than the main one. For example, you could say: The presidential debate was mostly overshadowed by the sideshow of media coverage about the candidates' personal lives.
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sideshow
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A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar.
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As we will go on to show the Ukip versus Conservative battles that are raging in the UK are only a sideshow as far as the UK is concerned.
Now I don't really know what I mean by any of that, but it seems to fit the surrealist circus sideshow mood of the climate policy debate in Australia right about now.
"I really think this is a sideshow," he said.
Related: Cameron to publish EU referendum bill one day after Queen's speech So Ukip's feuding is not merely a sideshow.
The furore surrounding the Castlederg march produced a sideshow of sectarianism on the Internet after Democratic Unionist councillor in Belfast and former deputy lord mayor of the city Ruth Patterson posted offensive remarks about the Sinn Fein march, which nationalists claimed were an incitement to violence.
Among musicians performing as part of the sideshow put on for the benefit of our world's leaders are Brisbane icons Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) and Ed Kuepper (The Saints, The Laughing Clowns) and left-field acts Ben Salter, Velociraptor and the Medics.
If that happens, then the enduring images of the PalmGore sideshow will quickly fade (well yeh OK, some things cannot be 'unseen', but you get my drift).
Related: Ukip's feuding is not merely a sideshow.
His presence may become a sideshow in this election season.More watched now will be the campaign of Imran Khan, who staged a huge rally on March 23rd in Lahore, Pakistan's second city.
IT SAYS something about Serbia that the election to its presidency, supposedly the most powerful job in the country, is a sideshow.
Despite some glee in Seattle about having found an "Airbus killer" in the proposed sonic cruiser, this is a sideshow.
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