to win the wooden spoon
1win the wooden spoon — get, win, take, etc. the ˌwooden ˈspoon idiom (BrE, informal) to come last in a race or competition Main entry: ↑wooden spoonidiom …
2get the wooden spoon — get, win, take, etc. the ˌwooden ˈspoon idiom (BrE, informal) to come last in a race or competition Main entry: ↑wooden spoonidiom …
3take the wooden spoon — get, win, take, etc. the ˌwooden ˈspoon idiom (BrE, informal) to come last in a race or competition Main entry: ↑wooden spoonidiom …
4Wooden spoon (award) — A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events.Wooden spoon at the… …
5wooden spoon — n 1.) a large spoon made of wood, used to mix things when cooking 2.) win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon BrE to come last in a competition …
6wooden spoon — noun 1. a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
7wooden spoon — /wʊdn ˈspun/ (say woodn spoohn) noun 1. a spoon made out of wood, as used in cooking. 2. Colloquial the notional prize awarded to the individual or team coming last in a sporting competition. –phrase 3. win (or get) the wooden spoon, Colloquial… …
8History of the England national rugby union team — The History of the England national rugby union team covers the period from 1871, when England played Scotland in the first ever rugby union international, to the present day. First matchThe game of rugby union developed out of the game of… …
9List of Australian Football League wooden spoons — The wooden spoon is the imaginary and ironic award which is said to be won by the team finishing in last place in the Australian Football League. No physical wooden spoon award exists, other than those brought by opposition fans to taunt… …
10History of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs — The history of the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs stretches from the 1930s to the present day. Based in Belmore, a suburb of Sydney, the Bulldogs in 1935 were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) competition, a… …
