chicken-in-the-basket
n.— «But by the end of the decade, they hit some hard times, McNally admits. “It’s what I call our chicken-in-the-basket period when we played all the cabaret and social clubs. The social clubs in the North East were the worst.”» —“All of a sudden we’re legends” by Philip Key Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Aug. 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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