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:
“Whither went the lovely hoyden?
Disappeared in blessed wife;
Servant to a wooden cradle,
Living in a baby’s life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
—Welsh proverb.