merry-go-round
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈmɛriˌɡoʊˌraʊnd/
- Texting
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círculo vicioso
- After countless meetings that seem never-ending, we realized we were just stuck on a merry-go-round of the same discussions.
- a never-ending merry-go-round
- get off the merry-go-round
- the merry-go-round of life
Most people will choose a life of the merry go round.
- Most people will choose a life of the merry go round.
Examples
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It had been one of the most difficult encounters of my career, and I didn't want to reboard that emotional merry-go-round.
Fiction book (2001) -
First, thanks to Kevin Gosztola for his objective piece on this never-ending merry-go-round of inhumanity.
Blog text (11) -
Now it's a change shift, which is kind of a merry go round of changes.
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We all ride a merry-go-round of feelings.
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We'll get on a merry-go-round and never get off.
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When the merry-go-round stopped, the housing market began to crash, and we're in the middle of it now.
Blog text (11) -
Once the school year begins and the merry-go-round starts, it's hard for us to find the "off button" until spring.
Blog text (1) -
She felt as though she were living on a merry-go-round and she could never get off.
Fiction book (1991) -
Once radical acceptance really begins in earnest, the one thing you will realize is that the merry go round of confusing conversations will never end.
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Please be safe; your own personal privacy and right to define your own life as you see fit is way more important than the infighting and endless merry-go-round that has been going on.
Blog text (10)
Synonyms
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5.5
A routine of repeated tasks that makes no progress
Antonyms
How Repetitive
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- Texting
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4.1
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- Specialized
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3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Merry-go-round became a picture for a situation that 'goes in circles' — something that keeps repeating without getting anywhere, just like staying on the spinning fair ride.