HAPPY MEDIUM Definition & Meaning

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happy medium

noun

a course of action or condition that is between two extremes:
Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
a satisfactory compromise between two things that are related in such a way that one increases as the other decreases:
We need to find a happy medium between conserving land and developing property.

happy medium

noun

a course or state that avoids extremes

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Origin of happy medium¹

First recorded in 1615–25

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Idioms and Phrases

The midway point between two extremes. For example, We need to find a happy medium between overdoing the holiday season and ignoring it entirely . This expression, first recorded in 1778, was once known as the golden mean and is based on ancient mathematical principles.

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Or perhaps it's a happy medium of all those things.

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Asking Trump to invest in nuclear fuel amounts to a potential happy medium: it is cleaner than fossil fuels, but far removed from the solar and wind power that may not strike the Trump administration as an attractive investment.

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“There is a happy medium,” he said.

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So let me challenge all y’all Dodgers fans to a happy medium: Make Los Angeles more like your team.

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This was on a bright May morning and Coleman, a star of the FX limited series “Clipped,” premiering Tuesday on Hulu, was at Happy Medium, an art cafe around the corner from her temporary apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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