happy medium

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happy medium

a course or state that avoids extremes

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hap′py me′dium

middle ground.

Translations

الحَل الوَسَط الأفْضَل، الوسط السَّعيد

střední cesta

den gyldne middelvej

középút

meîalvegur

gyllen middelvei

stredná cesta

orta yol

中庸之道折衷办法

happy medium

n → giusta via di mezzo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

happy

(ˈhӕpi) adjective

1. having or showing a feeling of pleasure or contentment. a happy smile; I feel happy today.

2. willing. I'd be happy to help you.

3. lucky. By a happy chance I have the key with me.

ˈhappiness noun

ˈhappily adverb

The child smiled happily; Happily, (= Fortunately,) she arrived home safely.

ˌhappy-go-ˈlucky adjective

not worrying about what might happen. cheerful and happy-go-lucky.

happy medium

a sensible middle course between two extreme positions. I need to find the happy medium between starving and over-eating.

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The happy medium for stump-clearing is the lord of all beasts, who is the elephant.

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I endeavoured to hit a happy medium between these two extremes; my aunt approved the result; and Mr.

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Knightley `no;' and Miss Bates and I that he is just the happy medium. When you have been here a little longer, Miss Fairfax, you will understand that Mr.

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Between the purely physical rykor and the purely mental kaldane there was little choice; but in the happy medium of normal, and imperfect man, as she knew him, lay the most desirable state of existence.

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He added: "Sooner or later, the British Parliament is going to have to support a backstop for Northern Ireland or else support no Brexit at all - there is no happy medium between these two eventualities "The bottom line is that the backstop, aside from scrapping Brexit entirely, is our only insurance policy against a hard border.

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This much-loved play offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madam Arcarti.

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With women ranging in sizes from a US 10 to 30, Brioschi hopes to showcase curvy body types, which she considers to be a happy medium between being too thin or too overweight.