after the Lord Mayor's show

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介词短语
  1. Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event. idiomatic
    — as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that "after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,

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From the proverb "After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dust-cart" (or "donkey-cart", or "shit-cart"). Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor's Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant's horses.
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