water cooler

water-cooler moment a moment, especially in a television programme, that provokes widespread and animated discussion.

☞ A water cooler is a dispenser of cooled drinking water, especially in an office or other place of work, and the image is of people gathering round it and talking about a particularly memorable passage in the previous evening's television broadcasts.

2009Tim FootmanThe Noughties Multi-channel TV, coupled with online playback, meant that the televisual water cooler moment ('Did you see Seinfeld/Miami Vice/Casualty last night?') was increasingly restricted to live sports events.

词组	water cooler
释义	water cooler water-cooler moment a moment, especially in a television programme, that provokes widespread and animated discussion. ☞ A water cooler is a dispenser of cooled drinking water, especially in an office or other place of work, and the image is of people gathering round it and talking about a particularly memorable passage in the previous evening's television broadcasts. 2009Tim FootmanThe Noughties Multi-channel TV, coupled with online playback, meant that the televisual water cooler moment ('Did you see Seinfeld/Miami Vice/Casualty last night?') was increasingly restricted to live sports events.
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