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In which all but one in party stand to lose their seats
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musical chairs
Word definitions for musical chairs in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Musical Chairs is Sammy Hagar 's third solo album.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Buckley resigned in what was essentially a game of corporate musical chairs . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is like a grown-up game of musical chairs . ▪ Since that time Kaunda has operated an unending game of musical chairs ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a child's game in which N players march to music around N-1 chairs; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context games English) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair ...
Usage examples of musical chairs.
Martha ditto for Church of Christ, but Nat was also headed for First Methodist, so I dropped the two of them off to play musical chairs and see a slide show about needy people in Africa and went to the drive-in with a couple of guys.
We never spoke of the cancer, and in some of those silences I thought that we must speak of it, that there would be nothing else and we would be stuck with it like kids caught without a place to sit in a game of musical chairs when the piano stops, and I would become almost frantic, trying to think of something - anything!
In what amounts to a subatomic game of musical chairs, the free electrons dash around madly trying to find a new home.
It reminded her of musical chairs: as soon as the music stopped in this room, some poor schmuck would no doubt be left standing, ass exposed and ready to be kicked.
The instant he saw General Stonebraker return in Hazzard's place he realized he was being fleeced at his own game of musical chairs.
Gathering from around the world each time one fewer, in a final game of musical chairs, until one day one of them would get a call and realize they were the last one left.
Fen watched Sally-Ann Thomson bumping off to take part in the musical chairs.
Good, because it was bad enough that the Medical Centre had taken it upon themselves to play a son of visiting musical chairs while Kate rushed around making them coffee.
Kids were playing Go Fish at one booth and musical chairs at another.
Sanforth was still trying mightily to shoo out the remaining newsmen, and the unfortunate assistant chief of protocol, deserted by his boss, was jittering like a nervous baby-sitter in his attempt to play musical chairs with too few chairs and too many notables, They continued to come in and Jubal concluded that Douglas had never intended to convene this public meeting earlier than eleven o'clock, and that everyone else had been so informed-the earlier hour given Jubal was to permit the private preconference that Douglas had demanded and that Jubal had refused.