concept
Balalaika
balalaika
also: балалайка
A triangular-bodied, three-stringed Russian folk instrument; Chekhov invokes it as a stock image for a voice that plays skillfully and seductively on an audience's nerves.
Reading notes
- A Case from Judicial Practice §5 as upon a balalaika
A triangular-bodied, three-stringed Russian folk instrument; the comparison casts the advocate's courtroom eloquence as a practiced, almost musical manipulation of the audience's feelings.