silly season
a time of year, usually in midsummer or during a holiday period, characterized by exaggerated news stories, frivolous entertainments, outlandish publicity stunts, etc.: The new movie reminds us that the silly season is here.
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How to use silly season in a sentence
Going by the spate of recent commentary on the stock market, we’re in the midst of silly season.
Buying bitcoin after an Elon Musk tweet is a perfectly rational move | Samanth Subramanian | February 10, 2021 | Quartzsilly season has started—and both parties are trying to fund-raise off the fringe.
Would such a move even be possible in the hottest days of the silly season?
Mark McKinnon on the end of silly season—and the battle ahead.
The Shroud is generally lumped in with silly-season subjects, such as Atlantis, yetis, and UFOs.
The Shroud of Turin and Thomas de Wesselow’s ‘The Sign.’ | Thomas de Wesselow | April 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Stanley Crouch tries to make sense of the White House silly season.
But as all such diplomatic flurries do, this one will pass, leaving the flatness of the silly season upon us.
The Book of Susan | Lee Wilson DoddWe'll look after ducal mansions in the silly season, when everybody's out of town.
Speaking generally, the cold weather may be said to be the “silly season” of the bird world.
Jungle Folk | Douglas DewarThose newspaper fellows got hold of it for the silly season and ran it to death, but it's the best possible place in the world.
The papers teemed with letters—it was a kind of Indian summer of the silly season.
The Big Bow Mystery | I. Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for silly season
British a period, usually during the hot summer months, when journalists fill space reporting on frivolous events and activities
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