In A Bug’s Life, the circus ringmaster is a flea. It’s a flea circus.
Admittedly I had heard the term “flea circus” my entire life but only this morning looked up what it actually was. I mean it’s pretty straightforward, a bunch of fleas made to look like they’re in a circus, but I was missing the history and context.
english judges depicted banging gavels is one that annoys me a bit. relevant to the topic, i never got the pun in world war z until i realised it’s the american zee. but missing ‘phil banks’ from fresh prince of bel air was my own fault
It’s Z for zombie. Works whether you say zee or zed, or is ther something else I’m missing? Never read the book or seen the movie.
I took it as a play on world war three