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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 is a synonym for “perfect storm”?
I believe "comedy of errors" would be understood in the way you intend. It's the title of a play by Shakespeare involving identical twins with identical servants and, well, it's Shakespeare.
"Th …
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What is the common name for amateurs who maintain and repair automobiles, particularly their...
The colloquial term for someone who performs maintenance and minor repairs on their own car is "shade tree mechanic".
From the Urban Dictionary:
A person willing to learn and perform scheduled m …
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Common phrase for something that changes while you are working on it
Try quicksilver. It has the element of mercurial (being a colloquialism for the element mercury) but also contains the uncertainty principle idea as it "runs away" when you try to touch it.
So, you …
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Common phrase for something that changes while you are working on it
A few phrases that capture the time / out-of-step component of your question: "a day late and a dollar short" or "always behind the eight-ball" or "I zig when everyone else zags.
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Phrase for having nearly completed something
Wait for it...
(like when a little kid wants to grab the dish of ice cream before his mother is done filling it)
You are burning up!
(from the little kids' game Hide-the-thimble. The close …
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Single word that describes a group of people that irrationally support a lost cause?
flat-earthers: believing in something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
mini- : Nancy and the mini-Nancys erupted like a ditch full of crickets when... (slavish)
robo- : Oh boy, you are …
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How to express a self-diminishing recursive property. Elegantly
In the following, I can't find the right way to express my meaning for the part in bold:
Studies show that high IQ individuals are more susceptible to drug addiction than the general population, m …
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What is a very general word to describe a country exercising control over a territory?
"Dominion" works. From Latin "domus" meaning master or lord.
If you are using as a column title, it would be flexible enough to encompass everything you require, unusual enough not to trigger anyone, …
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