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Merry-go-round

noun

A never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose).

A large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement. Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, roundabout, whirligig.

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"Merry-go-round" Quotes from Famous Books

... by whole-hearted lying, from the very possibility of joining the expedition and seeing the disillusionment of his public. With true artistic spirit he omitted all mention of confining house or cage and bestowed the gift of speech upon all the characters, whether brute or human, in his epic. The merry-go-round he combined with the menagerie into a whole which was not ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... spoke Bully. "It's like a merry-go-round, only it's turned up the wrong way. I'll see if I can ride on it, and if it goes all right with ...

— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis

... of Dumbarton Avenue and Greene (29th) Street, the four little yellow houses made into one make the home of Drew Pearson, the widely-known columnist and commentator—co-author with Robert S. Allen of the original "Washington Merry-Go-Round." ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

... in a healthy condition of attendance, prayer-meeting, church-meeting, mothers' meeting, Bible class, Dorcas society, Band of Hope, Sunday-school, all briskly in motion; and the ladies, led by Jenny, were all as busy as bees over a bazaar. New Zion had indeed become a veritable merry-go-round of religious and social activities. Yes, it was beginning to move, indeed, it was almost beginning to hum—another few months and it would fairly whizz, as Eli Moggridge had foreseen; and the sound of the humming and the speed of the whizzing would grow louder and louder and faster and faster, ...

— The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] • Richard Le Gallienne

... a good voice, Leonidas did, one of the kind that could go against a merry-go-round or a German band. The crowd stopped pushin' to listen, then some one made a break for the next room, and in less than a minute they were all in there, with the door shut between. Mr. Dodge tips me the wink and sails over to ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

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