Those players will have been like turkeys voting for Christmas.

To use a seasonal analogy, it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

For too many of those involved it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

It is a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas."

The clubs won’t accept them because it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.”

It's like turkeys voting for Christmas," one Labour source said.

The clubs at the bottom are not going to go for it, like turkeys voting for Christmas."

The minister's proposals have been criticised by grammar schools who said their acceptance of them would be "like turkeys voting for Christmas".

"Managers bought into it - like turkeys voting for Christmas - but the staff were a lot more suspicious of my intentions.

He added: "To go to our customers' offices and try to get them to stop trading with us is like turkeys voting for Christmas."

This custom gave rise to the humorous English idiom, "like turkeys voting for Christmas".

Of course, that was a suggestion Ms Wilding probably isn't keen to float upwards - It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Lord Berkeley, a member of the review group, had already acknowledged that getting the membership to agree to such a cut was "a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas".

Admitting his view was very much a minority one on the board, White said: "[Banning contact in school rugby] would be like turkeys voting for Christmas."

This wouldn't be like turkeys voting for Christmas, it would be like the banks voting for the Socialist Workers' Party.

As the free Spotify service has been touted as an iTunes killer, some suggest that approval of Spotify for iPhone would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Neither New Democracy nor Pasok would ever have dared address the issue "because that would be like turkeys voting for Christmas - their whole social base is based on old clientelistic politics".

Turkeys voting for Christmas is an English idiom used as a metaphor or simile (in the construct "like turkeys voting for Christmas") in reference to an apparently suicidal ("death-wish") choice, especially a political vote.

"If they topple Brown, it's a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas, because I can't see that Labor could get away without calling an immediate general election," said Neil Carter, a political scientist at the University of York.

With the issue of how Scotland is governed now dominating politics north of the border, Labour MPs are convinced that such a move by Liberal Democrats would be like turkeys voting for Christmas - the description employed by Callaghan of the Liberals who threatened to break the Lib-Lab pact.