Wooden Spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events. The term is of British origin and has spread to other Commonwealth countries.
Read more about Wooden Spoon (award): Wooden Spoon At The University of Cambridge, The Ready Steady Cook Wooden Spoon
Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or spoon:
“It’s the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
—Welsh proverb.