big tent

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,alsoattributive)Agroup,philosophy, orsocialorpoliticalmovementthatencompassesorseekstoattractabroadrangeofconstituentsormembers, orviews.Synonyms:(chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand)broad church,catch-all1930October, Eugene Garret Bewkes, “Humanism and Ethics”, inJames H[ayden] Tufts, editor,The International Journal of Ethics: A Quarterly Devoted to the Advancement of Ethical Knowledge and Practice, volume XLI, number 1, Chicago, Ill.:University of Chicago Press,→ISSN,→JSTOR,→OCLC,pages14–15:Humanism is an expansive trisyllable, a veritable "big-tent" of a word, sheltering many varieties of performance under its spreading canvas.1964September 9, “Goldwater endorsed in Mississippi”, in Graham M. Dean, editor,Porterville Evening Recorder, number395, Porterville, Calif.: Graham M. Dean,→OCLC,page 1:The Democratic governor of Mississippi,Paul Johnson, has endorsed Republican presidential nomineeBarry Goldwater.[…]He said he is confident that the majority of Mississippians "Have no desire to get underLyndon Johnson'sbig tentand to share the company already assembled there."1995July 10, Elizabeth Gleick[et al.], “Sobering Times for A.A.”, inTime‎[1], New York, N.Y.:Time Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon8 October 2010:The newcomers often bring an array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder whether A.A. [Alcoholics Anonymous] can or should be such abig tent.1996September 8, “Why Cowboys Became Kings”, inNewsweek‎[2], New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon26 February 2024:They are not a slice of Americana, as we usually say, but rather, a broad brush of it. While most of our successful sports franchises display some distinct personality, only the [Dallas] Cowboys offer thebig tent.2008December 6,Caitlin Flanagan,Benjamin Schwarz, “Showdown in the big tent”, inThe New York Times‎[3], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon26 November 2022:And here in essence is the problem with the Democrats'big tent, as well as the grounds for a wholly new kind of culture war that is probably going to make us long for the clear lines and simple enmities of the old one.2018July 4, Megan Garber, “Is #MeToo Too Big?”, inThe Atlantic‎[4], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon25 November 2023:#MeToo, that vast and disembodied and ongoing protest march, has been subject to similar dynamics: thebig tent, flinging its flaps ever wider; the entropic impulse as both a matter of promise and a matter of peril.2023July 24, Jason Horowitz, “What the collapse of Spain’s far right means going forward”, inThe New York Times‎[5], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon8 November 2023:Vox was established a decade ago when its leader,Santiago Abascal, split from the Popular Party, long abigcenter-righttentthat included monarchists, libertarian supporters of same-sex marriage, ultraconservative Catholics and Spaniards who detested the independence movements of the north.

Examples:

EN: If he goes bad in the big tent, someone'll get hurt.
ES: Si se pone malo en la carpa, lastimará a alguien.
EN: I found this gun under a wagon near the big tent.
ES: Hallé este rifle bajo un carro, cerca de la carpa.
EN: You've been chasing me all the way from the big tent.
ES: Ha estado persiguiéndome todo el camino desde la tienda grande.
EN: Those with a big tent...
ES: De ésos con una carpa.
EN: It's that great big tent with all the stripes.
ES: Es esa tienda grande a rayas.
EN: - Wardrobe. That big tent on your left.
ES: - La tienda grande a tu izquierda.
EN: It's her first night in the big tent.
ES: Es su primera noche en la carpa.
EN: Let's set up the big tent before we put on the feedbag.
ES: Vamos a montar la carpa antes de comer.
EN: We can't put on no show without a big tent.
ES: No podemos dar una función sin carpa.
EN: In two days, you shall have your big tent.
ES: Tendrás tu carpa dentro de un par de días.
EN: Whether or not Whitman deserves to be in the big tent with the big boys will be up to the vultures and the bookworms to decide.
ES: Que Walt Whitman se merezca entrar en el panteón de los grandes tendrán que decidirlo los buitres y los ratones de biblioteca.
EN: I'm gonna put a big tent... by this estate I'm building, ; And we'll have music, dancing... guys in white jackets, the whole thing!
ES: Voy a poner una gran carpa... en esta finca que estoy construyendo, Y tendremos música, baile... tipos con chaquetas blancas, ¡todo el asunto!
EN: Twice a year, you'd see the big tent go up on their tennis court and everyone could see that one of the Abbott girls was having a birthday or graduating or going away to college.
ES: Dos veces al año montaban una carpa para que todos vieran que una de las hijas cumplía años, se graduaba o iba a la universidad.
EN: They got this big tent.
ES: Tienen una carpa grande.
EN: Listen to me. If you really love me, I'll put this cummerbund on right now... we'll walk up that hill and go to the big tent and do it.
ES: Mira, Franny, si de veras me amas me pondré esto, subiré la colina y lo haremos.

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