Air Violin
Besides the gestures to accompany real violin performances, playing the air violin can also be a form of sarcasm, to indicate that another person seems to be rambling with a sob story or whining excessively, in self-pity.
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Famous quotes containing the words air and/or violin:
“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)