a gong show

A wild, chaotic, ridiculous, or disastrous event. Sometimes written as "gongshow." From the 1976–1978 television show The Gong Show, an amateur talent contest in which judges would end particularly bad acts by striking a giant gong. Primarily heard in Canada. Did you go to that party last night? What a gong show! A: "How do you think you did on your exam?" B: "It was a total gongshow. I'll be lucky if I even passed."

词组	a gong show
释义	a gong show a gong show A wild, chaotic, ridiculous, or disastrous event. Sometimes written as "gongshow." From the 1976–1978 television show The Gong Show, an amateur talent contest in which judges would end particularly bad acts by striking a giant gong. Primarily heard in Canada. Did you go to that party last night? What a gong show! A: "How do you think you did on your exam?" B: "It was a total gongshow. I'll be lucky if I even passed." See also: gong, show Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: gong gong (one) gonged stand up and be counted show the way get the show on the road get this show on the road show (one) out show out show someone out References in periodicals archive It will be a long time yet before any of these hopefuls becomes a household name or even gets a paid 15-minute slot but what a gong show lacks in polish it makes up for in car-crash entertainment value. COMEDY HOPEFULS GAME FOR A LAUGH; THE GRAND COMEDY GONG SHOW JT Rochhead, Glasgow, Sept 20 ***
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