noises off
English
Noun
noises off pl (plural only)
- (theater) Sound effects produced offstage.
- 1934, Alfred Kenneth Boyd, The Technique of Play Production:
- A separate section is given to this subject because as a rule the importance of noises off is badly underestimated in the amateur theatre.
- 1934, Alfred Kenneth Boyd, The Technique of Play Production:
- (by extension) Something occurring on the margins or periphery of a given event, situation etc.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 515:
- The political situation after the Year V elections developed into a war of position between rival factions, with muffled insurrectionary noises off supplied by bellicose neo-Jacobins and sabre-rattling royalists.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 515:
See also
- sound off
Anagrams
- effossion