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hamster wheel
[ ham-ster hweel, weel ]
noun
- a cylindrical framework, usually within a cage, that is rotated by a hamster or other small animal running inside of it.
- any situation that seems to be endlessly without goal or achievement.
Word History and Origins
Origin of hamster wheel1
Example Sentences
Odell offers a middle ground between dropping out of society and staying on the hamster wheel of capitalism.
You’ll typically be on a hamster wheel of solving those problems.
As you sit there, you wish you could take a brain break, too, and daydream about something, anything, that would allow you to step off this hamster wheel that has become pandemic life, if only for a few minutes.
In a figurative sense, this game reimagines Camelot as a hamster wheel, where knights like Sir Galahad have become tiny, pixellated cogs.
We suddenly find ourselves kicked off the hamster wheel and having to rethink things and be creative.
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