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Word for a choice that is not really a choice
It's Hobson's Choice.
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that multiple choices are available. The most well ...
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What is the phrase for a romantic relationship between two incompatible personality types?
The relevant idiomatic expression even gets its own (Merriam-Webster) dictionary entry...
opposites attract (idiom)
used to say that people who are very different from each other are often attracted ...
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Word for a choice that is not really a choice
I think false choice can be used in OP's context. Here's the description of a book titled "Women and False Choice: The Truth about Sexism: How to Fight Sexism in the Workplace"
As women ...
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What is the phrase for a romantic relationship between two incompatible personality types?
The Cambridge Dictionary has a word with an appropriate usage example
mismatch
verb
to put together people or things that are unsuitable for each other:
I always thought Chris and Monique were ...
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Name for the category of complex tasks/process where the standard is perfection
You could describe such jobs as having no room for error. (Also known as no margin for error) Per Jargonism, if something has no room for error, it is:
Something that requires a high-degree of ...
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Name for the category of complex tasks/process where the standard is perfection
Hygiene Factor is the marketing term for this type of situation.
a feature of a product or service that is expected and will make a customer unhappy if it does not exist
Cambridge
Notably, people ...
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Is the phrase "in place" a good synonym for "appropriate"?
If you had to use an idiom, you could use in order instead of in place, as in:
I thought a statue for the late poet would be in order.
Merriam-Webster defines "in order" as:
: APPROPRIATE,...
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Word for a choice that is not really a choice
From The Godfather... "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse."
From Wiktionary, in the phrase's second sense, an offer that can't be refused is
(idiomatic) A threatening offer by one ...
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Is there an idiom to say "However hard we try/ teach, nothing goes in"?
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” this means you can try to teach something but it is up to them to learn it. Often times said when the subject is refusing to “drink the ...
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What is a word/expression for useless advice?
Please, spare me your platitudes.
A platitude is a trite and obvious observation, in particular, one
that's expressed as if it were fresh and significant. —Richard
Nordquist [ThoughtCo.]
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Phrase meaning an evolving chain of tasks
Why not stick with a word you have already used in your question? The word is chain.
Simply add -ing to the word, and the resulting word describes quite nicely the phenomenon you describe. Here is ...
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