Meaning of tumbleweed moment | Babel Free

Definitions

A period of stony, unresponsive silence.

British, figuratively

Examples

“…real life television news quizzes have the benefit of careful editing to remove the tumbleweed moments.”

“When you’re wondering if they might just sit there self-consciously not saying anything (a tumbleweed moment) you need to get away from the centre-front, start moving around.”

“Peter Gibson, of Keep Britain Tidy, said: “in a world of daft pranks, we want littering to be that tumbleweed moment, the joke that falls flat on its face.””

CEFR level