play musical chairs

to move people from one organization or job to another The teams play musical chairs at that position - all of the top punters have played for at least two teams.

Usage notes: also used in the form a game of musical chairs: Buckley was reassigned in a game of corporate musical chairs Thursday.

Etymology: based on the children's game in which there is one more player than there are chairs and the players walk in a circle around the chairs until music stops playing, at which time they hurry to the nearest empty chair

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yoshirou	yo-shee-ṙo:	Japanese
Sameer (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Faris	-	Arabic, Bosnian
Johns	[dʒɔnz]
Hannas	-	Biblical Greek
Shyam	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Nepali