tumbleweed moment

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Definition of tumbleweed moment in English English dictionary

A period of dead air or stony, unresponsive silence

Peter Gibson, of Keep Britain Tidy, said: “in a world of daft pranks, we want littering to be that tumbleweed moment, the joke that falls flat on its face.”.

Hyphenation

tum·ble·weed mo·ment