silly season
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈsilly ˌseason noun the silly season British English informalTCN a period in the summer when newspapers print stories that are not very serious because there is not much political news 〔新闻界的〕无聊季节，新闻淡季〔指夏季，因政治新闻不多，报纸刊登不很严肃的内容〕
Examples from the Corpus
silly season• Then that silly season when the oil rigs blew like bottles in a crate of excited stout.• Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break.• The silly season is upon us.ˈsilly ˌseason nounChineseSyllable
a when print stories in period the summer newspapers Corpus
silly season
ˈsilly ˌseason
noun
the silly season British English informal a period in the summer when newspapers print stories that are not very serious because there is not much political news
ˈsilly ˌseason
nounthe silly season British English informal a period in the summer when newspapers print stories that are not very serious because there is not much political news