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merry-go-round

[ mer-ee-goh-round ]

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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

First recorded in 1720–30

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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