Idiom
fire drill
Meaning
Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This meeting is just another fire drill.”
“The whole office spent the morning in a fire drill, moving files from one room to another for no reason.”
“What had begun as a promising initiative devolved into an administrative fire drill, with committees drafting reports that no one would read.”
Examples
simple
“This meeting is just another fire drill.”
contextual
“The whole office spent the morning in a fire drill, moving files from one room to another for no reason.”
complex
“What had begun as a promising initiative devolved into an administrative fire drill, with committees drafting reports that no one would read.”
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