"room meat" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "from the sense of \"meat\" that refers negatively to people as in meat puppet",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meat in the room",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "room meat (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There is a scene in the film In The Loop where an MP is asked to attend an important meeting. But as he enters the room he is warned, with some menace, to keep his mouth shut tight. \"What?\", he asks, \"You've got me here as room meat?\"",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 23, Jonathan Wolff, “Lecturers, are you talking to 'room meat'?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "How much of our lives as academics is spent as room meat: turning up to things because it would look bad if the numbers were small, or just because we are meant to be there?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s)."
      ],
      "id": "en-room_meat-en-noun-mLUV6tPe",
      "links": [
        [
          "passive",
          "passive"
        ],
        [
          "make up the numbers",
          "make up the numbers"
        ],
        [
          "bystander",
          "bystander"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bums in seats"
        },
        {
          "word": "warm body"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "room meat"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "from the sense of \"meat\" that refers negatively to people as in meat puppet",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meat in the room",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "room meat (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bums in seats"
    },
    {
      "word": "warm body"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There is a scene in the film In The Loop where an MP is asked to attend an important meeting. But as he enters the room he is warned, with some menace, to keep his mouth shut tight. \"What?\", he asks, \"You've got me here as room meat?\"",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 23, Jonathan Wolff, “Lecturers, are you talking to 'room meat'?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
          "text": "How much of our lives as academics is spent as room meat: turning up to things because it would look bad if the numbers were small, or just because we are meant to be there?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "passive",
          "passive"
        ],
        [
          "make up the numbers",
          "make up the numbers"
        ],
        [
          "bystander",
          "bystander"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "room meat"
}