Wood family

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell. humorous,slang
    — In spite of their efforts to avoid it, members of the "Wood Family" were constantly in evidence. In the slang of the circus, the phrase simply meant empty seats.

词形变化

the Wood family canonical

词源

A pun on wood, the material that may be seen when benches are empty.
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