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This tag is for questions seeking a phrase or an expression that fits a meaning. If you're specifically seeking only a single word, see the "single word requests" tag too.
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What do you call it when you come up with a phrase to fit an acronym?
You see this in marketing sometimes, where a product or company with an acronym name later comes up with a phrase that fits the acronym for an ad campaign or a related product.
For example, if your c …
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Is there an idiom for disappointment caused due to last minute cancellation of plans?
I say that the person (or in this case, the travel company) "bailed on me."
Bail - dictionary.com
bail out,
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to give up on or abandon something, as to evade a responsibility:
His pa …
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Is there a word for discontent with the present in favor of the past?
What would you call the belief that the present is a bad time and the past is the example of how it should be? Not that the past was a perfect or even necessarily good age, but that the present is muc …
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Equivalent of the Dutch phrase "take it down a notch"
I've heard lots of phrases used in these contexts, several pretty similar to your Dutch saying. For a loud singer/talker, you can say:
Bring it down a notch/peg/bitTurn the volume down (figurative …
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Is there a term/phrase for a vicious cycle of overcorrection?
When something starts going wrong, then when you try to correct, you overcorrect and make things worse, then you try to correct it again, and again overcorrect, making things worse again, etc, until e …
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Looking for a word to describe ineffectual people who would like to be effective
Potential
According to dictionary.com,
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possibility; potentiality: an investment that has little growth potential.
a latent excellence or ability that may or may not be developed.
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some …
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