The audition was a total cattle call with hundreds of people waiting.
cattle call
idiomAn audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.
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.
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all hat and no cattle
Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
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answer the call of nature
To satisfy a bodily urge to urinate or defecate.
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call a lid
To inform the press that no further news will be released from a governmental body that day.
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call a spade a spade
To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to describe things as they really are.
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call an audible
To change plans at the last minute in response to new information.
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call it
To call it a day
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call it a day
To cease an activity.
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call it a night
To go to bed to sleep.