chinese fire drill

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A silly, pointless exercise
A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red-light; each passenger (including the driver) shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, taking a different seat

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Chinese fire drills
plural form of Chinese fire drill
chinese fire drill

    Hyphenation

    Chin·ese fire drill

    Turkish pronunciation

    çayniz fayr drîl

    Pronunciation

    /ʧīˈnēz ˈfīr ˈdrəl/ /ʧaɪˈniːz ˈfaɪr ˈdrɪl/

    Etymology

    () Perhaps from the WWI era, from the British practice of using Chinese as a slur; now used only as a festive exclamation.
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