Chinese fire drill

短语

词形变化

Chinese fire drills 复数 Chinese fire drills

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat.

    美国
  2. 2.

    A silly, pointless exercise.

    美国 贬义

词源

Perhaps from the WWI era, from the former Western use of Chinese as an ethnic and racial slur; now used only as a festive exclamation.

来源：wiktionary