Is there any word to describe the outcome has deviated from original idea/concept/intention? The result is worse than expected.
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A friend has said that there is a word meaning the outcome is something very different from that originally envisaged. For example:     The Australian government introduced a "First time home owner" bonus. Where if you were buying your first house you would get a lump sum cash. Of course everyone selling a house in that price backet put the price up by the same amount as the lump sum and first time buyers didn't benefit at all.   Does anyone know if there is a word meaning this and what it is?
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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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It may be something that will happen to the person who is having the feeling but it may also be to several persons, as might occur with a highly destructive earthquake, for instance.   The word or phrase would be used in the following sentence:      “I’m no spiritualist but I have a feeling of ___. I hope it’s just a feeling."   EDIT - The phrase I'm looking for conveys a much stronger feeling than "I have a bad hunch". It is about something catastrophic which the person feels is "going to happen in a few minutes".
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For example, I saw someone just now. I thought he was Jack, but turned out he was not. Or, I saw something and recognized it as something else incorrectly.  Is there a word for such situations?  I know if I read something wrongly, I could say "I misread it".  and if I hear something wrongly, I could say "I misheard it".  But I cannot find the word "missee" in any dictionaries.  Is there something else people use?
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I'm looking for a word referring to this description: "current state of a situation or the state before situation changed".
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Suppose that  (1990) is considered appalling, but you can't put your finger on exactly why, mainly because there are a plethora of reasons, most of which you lack the training/education/expertise to comment in-depth on (e.g. the writing, directing, editing etc.), so you use what you consider to be a disastrous moment/scene as an example, and think "this pretty much sums it up", for example , what would you call a scene like that? A single word or expression is satisfactory.  As an example:     "The Godfather 3 is so bad, for so many reasons, but here is a ______ that perfectly represents everything wrong with the movie."   An expression is also acceptable, and the example I gave is flexible (doesn't have to be structured as it is in the example).
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Is this a bug or is it expected?  How can it be solved if it's not expected?
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Something small goes wrong, and this triggers something slightly bigger, which triggers something slightly bigger, and so on and so forth until you end up with a chain of problems of increasing severity until it ends in catastrophy.  Something like the old saying "for want of a nail the battle was lost", only highlighting that each intermediate issue was a problem in its own right, not just a stepping-stone to the final disaster.  Is there a common word/phrase that specifically describes this? I'm thinking "cascade of ever-increasing problems", but this seems clumsy, and I suspect there might already be a neat word or expression that covers it.
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I'm working on a scene that, currently, is much more convenient when the view is.. not the correct perspective. There's a word for this, but I have no idea how to phrase it and my tries to look it up has all come up with weird results. (usually directions on how to make your view point from a certain direction) This has probably already been answered here, so please bear with me; I just cannot find anything that has to do with the problem I'm having. I drew a photo to make it easy: (excuse my crappy mouse-drawing skills)  Thanks!
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Sometimes my brain (maybe because I'm not a native English speaker) tends to come up with logical extensions to common formats; in this case, more than once I caught myself thinking (not out loud, thankfully) that I was feeling "pissy". Now, the actual meaning of that word is nothing close to what I meant, but I can't help but feel like there's a gap there.   seem to have wondered the same but I don't think I can draw anything conclusive from that...
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In some situations, trying to solve a problem uncovers another problem. Attempts to fix that uncover yet another. A few more rounds and one can be doing something seemingly completely unrelated to the main problem. Is there an expression for that?
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Like when you want to say that you'll tell a short version of something which would alter the accuracy of the original version.  I was thinking of "In a nutshell" and "To make a long story short", but I felt like those phrases did not place emphasis on the "there might be an insignificant loss of accuracy" aspect.
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I was reading an online editorial a week or so ago in which its author employed an awesome word, the meaning of which was "to intentionally and deliberately withhold information [essential to the endeavor at hand, with the underlying purpose of misleading others by its omission]". Yeah, all of that in one word.  Alas, I can't seem to find the editorial online anymore, I've now I forgotten the word!
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This has cropped up several times in the past couple of months, and I've been struggling to find  a fitting word to describe this phenomenon. I'll describe it:  You have two choices(no, it's not Hobson's choice). Both of them are desirable, yet both of them each have a tiny part which is most undesirable, such as a tough condition, or a demanding clause. You have difficulty deciding which one to pick.  Whenever something like that comes up, I think of the expression "Can't burn a candle at both ends", but I'm not looking for that.  I'm looking for an expression that describes a difficult choice. Any suggestions?  EDIT: It's idiomatic. I'm quite sure it is. It's an expression of some sort. And no, it isn't "dilemma"
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I'm looking for a word that means     someone (especially a boss) who is not pleased (with your work, attitude etc.) no matter how hard you try.
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Is there a word for using a word twice to imply something different? eg.     Are you done, or are you done done?
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When you are so mad at someone that you make a bad decision, even though you will be harmed by it as well, in order to harm that person; is there a good term for this?   For example burning $100 because he owns $20 of it.