MUSICAL CHAIRS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance

Example:

shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("musical chairs" is a kind of...):

rearrangement (changing an arrangement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

going to Jerusalem; musical chairs