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hamster wheel
[ ham-ster hweel, weel ]
noun
- a cylindrical framework, usually within a cage, that is rotated by a hamster or other small animal running inside of it.
- any situation that seems to be endlessly without goal or achievement.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hamster wheel1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
He is richer than any person has ever been, but he has trapped himself on a golden hamster wheel.
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To disrupt the first part of this pathway, try to halt the hamster wheel in your head.
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This, too, is an authoritarian's dream: people who exhaust all their emotions on an endless hamster wheel of random strangers, while becoming further disconnected from investment in their real-world community.
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“I could not continue to do this hamster wheel forever,†Diana said.
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In mourning, in a job she hates, in the toxic interplay of her dysfunctional family, in the internal hamster wheel of judgment and self-loathing.
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