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musical chairsˌmusical ˈchairs noun [uncountable] - Buckley resigned in what was essentially a game of corporate musical chairs.
- 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.
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