cheap seats
Noun
Meaning
cheap seats pl (plural only)
The lowest-priced seats in a theatre or stadium, typically located on an upper balcony.
Synonyms
Examples
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
I'm reading Heather Graham's Flawless, and Neil Gaiman's forthcoming collection, The View from the Cheap Seats.
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman.
The Russian bard singer Bulat Okudzhava has a song called "The Prayer of François Villon" (in Russian: "Молитва Франсуа Вийона" Molitva Fransua Viyona) (covered by Regina Spektor in 2012 on the album What We Saw from the Cheap Seats).