English Dictionary

dueling banjos

noun

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

The dueling banjos created a lively atmosphere at the music festival.

意味（1）

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.

The current discussion of choice in education has been driven by this dueling banjos mentality in which scholars and other intellectual entrepreneurs compete for public and intellectual attention by describing the conditions they want to create.

意味（2）

Something typical of a stereotypic hillbilly; Something characterized by lack of education, poverty, inbreeding or lack of sophistication.

The name Appalachia evokes a host of popular images and stereotypes: feuds, individualism, moonshine, subsistence farming, quilting bees, illiteracy, and dueling banjos, to name just a few.