Meanings
- not comparableToo bright.
Operetta is tricky: potentially as sparkling and sophisticated as Champagne, it is often produced today as a kind of Kool-Aid punch, overbright and oversweet and with very little appeal to a discriminating audience.
2007 January 27, Anne Midgette, “Operetta and Weill in Front; Moving Shadows in Back”, in New York Times
Origin
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