Musical Chairs (Sammy Hagar album)
WordNet
noun
(1) A rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance
"The company is looking for stability after years of musical chairs with directors"
"Shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment"
(2) A child's game in which N players march to music around N-1 chairs; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A child's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.
- Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects.