Definition of "ringside seat" []

• A seat in the front row of a boxing or wrestling match. (noun)
• Any vantage point providing an excellent view. (noun)

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• "While substituting for Guy Bluford in the SMS I had a ringside seat to some of this humor."
• "Even Kleph-all of them had been touched with a pettiness, the faculty that had enabled Hollia to con­centrate on her malicious, small schemes to acquire a ringside seat while the meteor thundered in toward Earth’s atmosphere."