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a rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance
shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment
the company is looking for stability after years of musical chairs with directors - a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; 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 is seated
How To Use musical chairs In A Sentence
- After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
- It's like musical chairs played with quantum physics. Times, Sunday Times
- This political and bureaucratic game of musical chairs has the entire world on a knife edge, continued uncertainty and lack of confident decision making worsening sentiment.
- The children played musical chairs in the living room, miniature golf in the back yard, and rode wagons made with skates, two-by-fours, and apple boxes.
- It was musical chairs. Creative people would switch jobs just to get more money.
- He had come out on top in the game of musical chairs by which senior posts seemed to be filled.
- Scott is now the finance director, after a long game of musical chairs among top management.
- In this game of musical chairs, let's try and make sure everyone gets a seat.
- The band obliged with musical chairs, but after two of the dining room chairs were broken, they left off playing.
- The reception kicks off with a klezmer band, and Sophie and Max are hauled up on chairs for the Jewish wedding version of musical chairs.
