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merry-go-round
[ mer-ee-goh-round ]
noun
- Also called carousel. (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
- a rapid whirl or a busy round, as of social life or business affairs.
merry-go-round
noun
- another name for roundabout
- a whirl of activity or events
the merry-go-round of the fashion world
Word History and Origins
Origin of merry-go-round1
Example Sentences
You need some scuff marks from the great merry-go-round we call life.
When he finally emerged in “a country lane,” he felt as if he had “jumped off a merry-go-round.”
The worst thing they do is break into a zoo and ride the merry-go-round.
Anybody can push a merry-go-round, or push their buddy on sled down a hill.
Hired as a mechanic, he would soon find himself behind the wheel, yet “he found oval racing a deadening merry-go-round.”
Once Drouet took Whistler to the fair at Neuilly, made him ride in a merry-go-round.
It was a merry-go-round of coasters climbing up single file by the slide while coaster after coaster shot singly down.
Thereat the Girl Scouts' washing went on as merrily as a merry-go-round at a picnic.
And she visited a merry-go-round, and took part in a seaside pageant.
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
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