goat rodeo
English
Noun
goat rodeo (plural goat rodeos)
- (Canada, US, slang) A chaotic, unmanageable situation.
- 1996, Barbara Isabel Hummel, Managing the world: an analysis of expressive folklore among paramedics
- For example, a shooting incident had turned into a 20 police car "goat rodeo." The entire area was blocked by the multitude of police cars...
- 2004, David Clarke, Technology and terrorism
- Old FAA hands, who are trying to keep this goat rodeo moving in a straight line, are still hopeful that this will all shake out in time...
- 2004, Todd A, Being Good
- I should have known after a Monday like that, that Tuesday would be a veritable goat rodeo.
- 2017, Dylan Scott, Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare
- “McConnell has zero interest in presiding over another goat rodeo,” a second health care lobbyist told me.
- 1996, Barbara Isabel Hummel, Managing the world: an analysis of expressive folklore among paramedics
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