"after the Lord Mayor's show" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the proverb \"After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dust-cart\" (or \"donkey-cart\", or \"shit-cart\"). Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor's Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant's horses.",
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          "ref": "1864, George Waters, Indian gleanings and thoughts of the past, G.H. Windeyer, Chatham, page 154",
          "text": "as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that \"after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,",
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          "ref": "1995 December 10, Clem Thomas, “White hot Swansea”, in The Independent (UK)",
          "text": "The All Whites came into this match hotfoot from their stunning victory over Castres last Tuesday which took them into the semi-final of the prototype European Cup. ... For a while it looked as if it might be a case of after the Lord Mayor's show as Swansea struggled with one of their dozy moods, against Treorchy.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Jeremy Carrad, Running on Empty, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, page 40",
          "text": "\"After the Lord Mayor's Show.\" Freddy looked up from reading Punch. \"What is, old fruit?\" \"The excitement's gone. Back to dull monotony.\"",
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        "Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event."
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        "(idiomatic) Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event."
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  "etymology_text": "From the proverb \"After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dust-cart\" (or \"donkey-cart\", or \"shit-cart\"). Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor's Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant's horses.",
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          "ref": "1995 December 10, Clem Thomas, “White hot Swansea”, in The Independent (UK)",
          "text": "The All Whites came into this match hotfoot from their stunning victory over Castres last Tuesday which took them into the semi-final of the prototype European Cup. ... For a while it looked as if it might be a case of after the Lord Mayor's show as Swansea struggled with one of their dozy moods, against Treorchy.",
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          "ref": "2006, Jeremy Carrad, Running on Empty, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, page 40",
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