Phrase · Shopping & retail
the courgette incident
noun phrase
/thuh-koor-zhet-in-si-dent/
Definition
A minor supermarket crisis triggered entirely by the machine's inability to identify a vegetable it was explicitly designed to weigh.
In use
“There was another courgette incident at the self-checkout and now there's a queue of six.”
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Language
- Language form
- noun phrase
- Pronunciation
- /thuh-koor-zhet-in-si-dent/
Classification
- Life domain
- Everyday life
- Topic
- Shopping & retail
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