I'd rather stick beans in my ears than listen to your modern muzak.
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Muzak
//ˈmjuːzæk//
Synonyms for "muzak" (6 found)
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6 translations across 4 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 罐頭音樂 /罐头音乐 name (type of background music)
Finnish
3 entries- hissimusiikki name (type of background music)
- muzak name (type of background music)
- hissimusiikki noun (easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting)
French
1 entries- muzak name (type of background music)
Spanish
1 entries- muzak name (type of background music)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.
Source: wiktionary
There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.]
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Some people, of course, have no trouble making that decision: they know they don't like Muzak. Critics charge that Muzak invades what could be pleasurable silence, disrupts conversation, or smacks of George Orwell's 1984. [Originally published in American Way.]
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