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单词 musical chairs
释义
musical chairsˌmusical ˈchairs noun [uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Buckley resigned in what was essentially a game of corporate musical chairs.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It is like a grown-up game of musical chairs.
  • Since that time Kaunda has operated an unending game of musical chairs between tribal interest groups.
  • The band obliged with musical chairs, but after two of the dining room chairs were broken, they left off playing.
  • The lute also provided the music for the game of musical chairs they played, with cushions laid in a row.
  • Time passed and we played musical chairs, rotating as the numbers called out got closer to the ones we were assigned.
  • When the money goes away on a trading floor, it feels very like when the music stops in musical chairs.
word sets
WORD SETS
bar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb
1a children’s game in which all the players must sit down on a chair when the music stops, but there is always one chair less than the number of people playing2a situation in which people change jobs for no good reason or with no useful result:  Scott is now the finance director, after a long game of musical chairs among top management.
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