chook raffle
Britishnoun
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a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
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to be totally incompetent
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He lacked "even the organisational skills to run a chook raffle, let alone a coup", commentator Paula Matthewson wrote.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2018
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