Consider the following scenario if you were at a music concert:   A singer sings into a microphone The sound comes out from the speakers The sound from the speaker is picked up by the microphone The sound comes out from the speakers The sound from the speaker is picked up by the microphone ...   This kind of loop can manifest itself in other ways. E.g. happiness breeds success, success breeds happiness which breeds success, and so on.  What’s the best word/phrase that captures this phenomenon?
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Can you think of a word that is like a vicious circle, i.e. where it's difficult to say which thing creates the other, but not in a negative way? I know vicious circle also means that but it has a negative connotation.
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Imagine your college buddy is now running a multi-billion dollar company, while you're still stuck at the same white-collar day job 5 years after graduation. You chat with him and want to express the idea that you're happy for him and fancy having his lifestyle--something like "I wish I could buy a yacht and cruise around the world like you do; I'm glad you're doing really well!"  Basically, it's the feeling of envy when you take out the resentment from it. Is there a word for it?   (I thought about "admire", but found it too strong and broad)
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I'm looking for a word that means &quot;to make music&quot; without regard to how the music is made (vocal or instrumental), like &quot;to sing&quot; means to make music by passing air over the vocal chords. Example sentences:  I am going to ____. Let's ____.  I would like it to not require an object( for example &quot;play&quot; would work, but the meaning is unclear without stating what is being played). EDIT: To clarify, I am looking for a single word meaning to play music, not a word meaning to write music, although it should be able to apply to improvising(playing and composing music simultaneously). EDIT2: &quot;Make Music&quot; does not work because it is unclear (it could mean to compose or to play music) and sounds too formal for common use.
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If someone is the bearer of bad news you might say, Don't shoot the messenger. If you have something that seems unfortunate at first but ends out wonderful you might say it's a blessing in disguise.  I'm looking for a word or phrase that is a combination of the two - a bad experience that is actually bad, but ultimately heralds something good.  For example - if a couple is trying to get pregnant, and the wife gets morning sickness. There is nothing fun about vomiting and nausea, but it potentially heralds wonderful news for the soon-to-be-parents.  Is there an expression to describe the morning sickness?
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I wish to state that my exposure to a certain area was a mere coincidence, and I am happy about the area.   Moreover, I want to convey the idea that the incident was like a fairytale, something no one would easily believe, but because of it I ended up where I am.  The same incident happening to someone else might go unnoticed but it rang the bells for me.  Stating this idea as above is too long and boring, and such language seems childish or out-of-place in a statement of purpose. I want to make it succinct.  Is there any word or phrase that conveys the same idea?
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Dictionary gives me "drone" and "murmur" but I'm not sure if that's the word I am thinking of.  I want to use it to describe a group of people on strike who hear that their demands are not met and the CEO has resigned.  They're not shouting, but they're not whispering either.  They're restless and confused.  I want to say that a certain something (murmur?) was heard among the crowds, to indicate their state.
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There is a good feeling you get when your curiosity is satisfied, especially if is about a question you found interesting or important, or have spent a lot of time and energy trying to answer. Depending on how much I wanted to know, this feeling can be quite pleasing. Is there a word specifically for either the satisfaction of a curiosity, or the feeling that results?
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Is there a single word with the same meaning as "good moments" or "pleasant memories"? I'm looking for a word which describes good thing(s) that happened to someone. The only word I can think of is "joy".  Some examples might be:   Wayne has many pleasant memories of the days spent with the family. She could remember many good moments from the last weekend.
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ie.:  The idea was "(blank)".  It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.  or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body.  It was "(blank)".
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An example might be a car that is fast, luxurious, reliable, gets great gas mileage, and is very cheap. Clearly we'd all love to own such a car, but it doesn't exist, and probably never will. There's also some naiveté in assuming it would.  Is there a metaphor, idiom, or other phrase that connotes this?  "Gee, that sounds like a wonderful car, but unfortunately, it's a _____."    UPDATE:  With regard to the proposed dupe - that question has the same accepted answer, but it's not the same question. Two different questions can have the same answer. Please let me know if you disagree.
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I would use rope-a-dope, but it's got connotations of pretending to lose that I don't need. I'm trying to describe the behavior of someone who sends twenty detailed emails a day about various projects, and the recipient of his emails has finally gotten tired of trying to parse them, so the recipient just agrees to whatever he proposes. I'd like an expression that evokes both outward earnestness and hidden creepiness, like Uriah Heep, Dickens's "Humble servant" with veiled ambition, who overdoes it with professions of humility until he's in power. Water torture would work, but comes too close to a more racist expression that I'm not comfortable with.
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As onomatopoeia means words that sound like what they mean, is there a word which means words that sound contrary to what they mean?  Pulchritude is an example of such a word.
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Inspired by  (text is below), I have sometimes wondered if there is a word for the feeling that a person you were talking to about a particular subject was using the same words as you, but was actually talking about something else, or was leading into a very different and seemingly unrelated subject. Typically, you feel like the person is crazy by this point.  Is there a single word for this? Is there a two- or three-word phrase, maybe?    The chat message:     There should be a word for that double-take sensation you get when you realize the conversation is further down the rabbit hole than you thought. Like when you are having what you think is a normal chat about interest rates, or something, and the other person mentions that we're all controlled by lizards from space.
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Is there a phrase in English that that can be used in the following situation:  You read an article and from the title you understand that this is something positive, but if you read it all, very carefully, you will see that "small words" at the end reveal the reality.  The same situation is when signing contracts, when something negative for the customer is indicated in the end with small letters
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Is there a word (or phrase) for phrases that are examples of what they describe? For example, "You the verb" to tell someone they forgot a verb in an online posting, or "spacesmakethingseasiertoread".
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I'm looking for a term for audio in form of the word visual.  Visual is defined as      of or relating to the sense of sight   What could you call the sense of hearing? Also, what do you call this form of a word? (i.e verb, noun...)  It should fit the x in the following sentence:     Is it possible to fall in love with someone without visual or x contact?   I'm not a native English speaker, so I couldn't find the terms for searching this.
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I know that I came from a country where inventing words or phrase for something is common. I always hear this phrase when they say it:     you're so feeling close   to denote that someone pretends to be your close friend or vice versa. I'm not just that confident that the usage of this phrase is valid. I believe that we're the only one who used this.  A singled word or phrase will do.