ringside seat

A place providing a close view of something, as in We lived right next door, so we had ringside seats for their quarrels. This term presumably came from boxing, where it denotes the seats just outside the boxing ring. [c. 1860]

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Having a ringside seat for the end of American democracy and the rule of law in real-time is not.

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A ringside seat at the White House was something earned through decades of slogging through the political and journalistic mud.

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More than £14.1m was recouped from ticket sales alone, with one VIP group package which included a ringside seat and photographs with the fighters costing as much as £1.6m.

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Earl Slick’s "Guitar: Playing with David Bowie, John Lennon, and Rock-and-Roll’s Greatest Heroes" affords readers with a ringside seat for many of popular music’s most iconic moments.

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If I was not boxing Joshua Buatsi in just a few weeks' time I would be trying everything I could to get a ringside seat in Quebec.

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