- happy medium
- ,happy `medium noun singulara way of doing something that is between two extreme positions or is satisfactory to everyone
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
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happy medium — noun A prudent or sensible middle course • • • Main Entry: ↑happy * * * happy medium see ↑medium, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑happy happy medium : a good choice or condition that avoids any extremes … Useful english dictionary
happy medium — If you reach a happy medium, you are making a compromise; reaching a conclusion or decision … The small dictionary of idiomes
happy medium — index compromise Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
happy medium — noun A balanced position between two opposite extremes. The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy … Wiktionary
happy medium — Synonyms and related words: abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, center, compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, evenness, fence, generality, gentleness, golden mean, half measures, half… … Moby Thesaurus
happy medium — UK / US noun [singular] a way of doing something that is between two extreme positions or is satisfactory to everyone … English dictionary
ˌhappy ˈmedium — noun [singular] a way of doing something that is between two extreme positions or that is satisfactory to everyone … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
happy medium — hap′py me′dium n. cvb middle ground … From formal English to slang
strike a happy medium — {v. phr.} To find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers. * /Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue green./ * /Two teaspoons of sugar… … Dictionary of American idioms
strike a happy medium — {v. phr.} To find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers. * /Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue green./ * /Two teaspoons of sugar… … Dictionary of American idioms
