chicken-in-the-basket

chicken-in-the-basket
 n.— «Wearing a beaded scarlet top and black skirt, she began with the Irving Berlin standard “Blue Skies,” which suffered rough treatment at the hands of a ruinous chicken-in-the-basket funk rhythm.» —“o be or not to be one’s self / Review of Liza Minnelli at the Palladium” by David Sinclair Times (London, England) Mar. 10, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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