after the Lord Mayor's show

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === === Prepositional phrase === after the Lord Mayor's show (idiomatic) Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event. === See also === anticlimax; hangover === References ===