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chicken-in-the-basket

chicken-in-the-basket
 n.— «Pitched towards the provincial chicken in the basket audience and relying on the common currency of familiar hit vocal tunes for material, Zoe has pursued a path somewhere near to those sterile market-survey constructed Shadows albums of the mid-eighties.» —“Gypsy Noodle—Review” by Dave Burke Pipeline Instrumental Magazine (U.K.) , 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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