rubber-chicken circuit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rubber-chicken circuit
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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When you spend your life as a football coach, you inevitably speak on the rubber-chicken circuit.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018
At a Variety event in Palm Springs on Sunday, he pulled back the veil on the whole rubber-chicken circuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2015
Kasparov circled the luncheon room like a politician on the rubber-chicken circuit, skipping his own lunch and stopping at the round tables to greet individual delegates.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2014
Beats fish fries and working the rubber-chicken circuit.
From Washington Post
If he can't or won't do anything about things like that, it's hard to care if Ford has a nice family, likes the rubber-chicken circuit, or can beat up Cambodia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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