Meaning of Wood family | Babel Free

Definitions

Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell.

humorous, slang

Examples

“In spite of their efforts to avoid it, members of the "Wood Family" were constantly in evidence. In the slang of the circus, the phrase simply meant empty seats.”

“[…] we trucked last week's show sixteen miles to the coastal village of Lynton for a single performance in the village hall, a performance attended largely by the “Wood Family”—theatrical gallows humor for the rows of empty wooden seats.”

“We learned to despise the 'Wood' family, that is, the empty seats. We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.”

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