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)
“I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.”
—Pete Townshend (b. 1945)