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But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.

The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.

The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.

The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.

But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

"Biting off live chickens' heads, in a sideshow wild-man act," Hideyoshi O'Leary supplied.

Hagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man.

Unfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record his impressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.

To make it take an hour he'd have to be ossified, wouldn't he, like the feller in the circus sideshow?

The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.