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hamster wheel

[ ham-ster hweel, weel ]

noun

  1. a cylindrical framework, usually within a cage, that is rotated by a hamster or other small animal running inside of it.
  2. 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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