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make a spectacle of
(redirected from spectacle)

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make a spectacle of yourself
to do something that makes you look stupid and attracts other people's attention. I wasn't going to make a spectacle of myself by dancing with my grandma!
make a spectacle of yourself
to do something that attracts people's attention and makes you look stupid. She did not scream and shout or otherwise make a spectacle of herself.
Related vocabulary: make a fool of yourself

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