peanut gallery (suomeksi)

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(lb, en, historical) In the nineteenth century, the cheap seats at the back of a theatre or in the upper balcony. This sense of the peanut gallery as an undesirable but available place to enjoy a performance is illustrated in Robert Ames Bennett's Western novel, "Into the Primitive" (NY: A.L. Burt, Co. 1908), p.280: "But give me a chance to hear good music, and I’m there, if I have to stand in the peanut gallery."
(lb, en, historical) The upper balcony in racially segregated venues such as a theatre to which black patrons were restricted.''Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from Our Lively and Splendid Past'' by Stuart Berg Flexner (1982; Simon and Schuster; (ISBN, 0671248952), 9780671248956), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=onTUSufhDJ6yMKiZoPgB&id=rsxWAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22peanut+gallery%22+origin&q=%22peanut+gallery%22search_anchor page 438]
''Peanut gallery'' was in use in the 1880s, as a synonym for ''nigger gallery'' (1840s) or ''nigger heaven'' (1870s), the upper balcony where blacks sat, as in segregated theaters.
(lb, en, idiomatic) Any source of heckling, unwelcome commentary or criticism, especially from a know-it-all or of an inexpert nature. May also now refer to general audience response: "Let's hear it from the peanut gallery."