cattle call

cattle call

A large audition (for film, television, theater, etc.) that is open to the public, meaning many people typically attend and they are often seen very briefly. I spent days preparing for the audition, but it turns out it was just a cattle call and they ushered me out before I was even halfway done with the monologue.
See also: call, cattle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • any (one) worth (one's) salt
  • keel over
  • young man
  • walk it off
  • walk off
  • raise (some/a few) eyebrows
  • cause (some) eyebrows to raise
  • cause eyebrows to raise and cause some raised eyebrows
  • cause raised eyebrows
  • eyebrow
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He revived in 1955 Tex Owen's Cattle Call, with its prominent use of a chorus anticipating the slick Nashville Sound, Music City's response to rock and roll.
No wonder Nancy Rhodes goes straight to bed after ESOP's early morning "cattle call".
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Announcer: If going to your bank feels like a cattle call, maybe it's time to call Glendale Federal Bank.
With the provincial Liberals anxious to make good on their promise to abolish coal-fired plants in Ontario by 2007, the cattle call to search for cleaner sources of power such as wind has begun.
By contrast, a nonpartisan listing of candidates would repeat the cacophony of the California recall, where voters had to choose among a cattle call of contenders, and so gravitated to the ones with the most money and name recognition.