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   gong show

   noun

   • 1. a situation or event marked by chaos and incompetence: informal Canadian "At the check-in counter, none of the machines were printing boarding passes or baggage tags. What a gong show!"

   Word Origin 1980s: from The Gong Show, a television programme originally broadcast in the US 1976–8 that featured talent competitions with comically unskilled amateur contestants.

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