| 单词 | musical chairs |
| 释义 | musical chairsnounAlso called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval. Informal. a situation or series of events in which jobs, decisions, prospects, etc., are changed with confusing rapidity. Origin of musical chairsFirst recorded in 1875–80 Words nearby musical chairsMusial, music, musica ficta, musical, musical box, musical chairs, musical chairs, play, musical comedy, musicale, musical glasses, musicalize Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for musical chairsmusical chairs noun (functioning as singular)a party game in which players walk around chairs while music is played, there being one fewer chair than players. Whenever the music stops, the player who fails to find a chair is eliminated any situation involving a number of people in a series of interrelated changes Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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