Idiom
cattle call
Meaning
An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The audition was a total cattle call with hundreds of people waiting.”
“Because the director opened the audition to everyone, it turned into a chaotic cattle call.”
“The young actor felt discouraged by the cattle call, knowing that the sheer volume of applicants made his chances of being noticed nearly impossible.”
Examples
simple
“The audition was a total cattle call with hundreds of people waiting.”
contextual
“Because the director opened the audition to everyone, it turned into a chaotic cattle call.”
complex
“The young actor felt discouraged by the cattle call, knowing that the sheer volume of applicants made his chances of being noticed nearly impossible.”
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