audience-proof

adjective

Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.

Meanings

adjectiveaudience-proof (comparative more audience-proof, superlative most audience-proof)

comparative more audience-proof · superlative most audience-proof

  1. Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.

    Hazel Kirk had been fashioned out of ingredients that had long proven audience proof — a projected marriage […]

    1974, The Players Magazine, volume 50, page 42
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    To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]

    1951, Horace Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet, page 126

Origin

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