dance of the lemons
n.— «Instead, principals engage in what Stanford‘s Bridges calls “the dance of the lemons” or the “turkey trot”—they transfer their incompetents from school to school in the wake of parental complaints.» —“Incompetence—The Schools’ Blight” by Katy Butler San Francisco Chronicle May 29, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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