the silly season

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the silly season (British & Australian informal)

a period of time in the summer when there is not much news, especially political news, so the newspapers have articles about events that are not important It's the silly season again, and as usual, the papers are full of stories about the Loch Ness Monster.

See play silly buggers

See also: season, silly

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