a gong show



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a gong show

A wild, chaotic, ridiculous, and/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 gong show. I'll be lucky if I even passed."
See also: gong, show

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Choukocho:-koJapanese
PaĈJoPAH-chyoEsperanto
Lilianalee-LYAH-nah (Italian, Polish), lil-ee-AN-ə (English)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, English
Martialis-Ancient Roman
Tom (1)TAHM (English), TAWM (Dutch)English, Dutch
Sommer['sʌmə]