beauty contest
Noun
Meaning
A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.
Synonym: beauty pageant
(business) A tender in which bidders are ranked according to some (known or secret) criteria.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Balu called a beauty contest, which Sanam had been part of, “worthless.”
The FBI wanted to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 in the U.S. Virgin Islands while he was judging a beauty contest but it did not — in a missed opportunity the buruea’s supervisory special agent was “extremely upset” about.
It looks like they are either at a beauty contest or maybe a fashion show.
This sounds very much like another version of the British super-nanny attitude where all it takes in a stiff-upper lip and VOILA! and Sarah will eat her nice food and the Germans will stop bombing London and Margaret Thatcher will win a beauty contest.
Many central Iowans have childhood memories of taking a walk on the Boardwalk, playing Monopoly and winning second prize in a beauty contest — as well as the phony $10 prize that came with it.
Often it would appear as if Gladstone had the upper hand in winning Daisy due to his luck, only to find fate thwarts his plans, such as a contest where the man who hunts the most turkeys gets to have dinner with Daisy, who has won a beauty contest.