Idiom
merry-go-round
SlangCockney rhyming slang
Meaning
pound
Examples
“The children love riding the merry-go-round at the park.”
“Life has felt like a constant merry-go-round of meetings and deadlines lately.”
“Caught in a dizzying merry-go-round of administrative bureaucracy, the applicant struggled to find a clear path toward resolving the issue.”
Examples
simple
“The children love riding the merry-go-round at the park.”
contextual
“Life has felt like a constant merry-go-round of meetings and deadlines lately.”
complex
“Caught in a dizzying merry-go-round of administrative bureaucracy, the applicant struggled to find a clear path toward resolving the issue.”
Origin
In the sterling sense. Referring to the saying that "money was made round to go round".
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