what the butler saw
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "For the next fifteen years he would make some 500 short films there – conjuring turns, fairy stories, burlesques, what-the-butler-saws, literary adaptations, fantastic voyages and reconstructed newsreels – of which about a fifth have survived."
- "When a male supervisor in Night Shift watches the women working at the machines, the female narrator is reminded of "some pier Peeping Tom, getting the story of 'what the butler saw' from a penny slot machine""
- "In Last Tango, we encounter another cast of off-the-wall characters (does Wales really have this many eccentrics?) as Louie becomes involved in Aberystwyth's 'What the Butler Saw' film industry."
- "Suggesting a 'What The Butler Saw' salacious storyline, the title instead appears to be a juvenile play on the 'Stanley 3-in-1 saw' DIY tool."
- "There are two main types—the machine working on the "What the butler saw" principle, where a knob is turned for the answer and the next exciting instalment, and "a programmed text- book" with questions on one side of the page and answers covered up by a flap on the other"
- "His scheme, which incorporates a 'what the butler saw emporium', two museums, a long bar and a 'fabulous' submerged restaurant has, perhaps more than the professional winners, caught the traditional rich-mix pier-head flavour."