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A display case for your best self, curated to hide the receipts.
means A display or event designed to present someone or something's best qualities, or the glass case built to hold it.
from Simply 'show' plus 'case' — a literal compound from the 19th century, first naming the glass cases shops used to display goods without letting customers touch them. By the early 1900s it had leapt from furniture to metaphor, letting any performance, portfolio, or talent night 'showcase' its contents the same way a shopwindow does — everything visible, nothing handled.
- origin
- Literally meant a glass display cabinet, 1835
- verb shift
- Became a verb only in the 1920s
- hollywood trick
- Showcase and showbiz share the same marketing DNA
- quiet rule
- What gets showcased is never the full inventory