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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread trapeze #205807 05/16/2012 9:34 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague USAGE: "In my last year at the university, I felt like I had finally mastered walking the trapeze of my life, work, and academics." The Centre Daily Times; Students in Rural Schools; The Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania); Feb 6, 2005." "walking the trapeze of my life" link Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: trapeze BranShea #205808 05/17/2012 12:07 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass maybe he was thinking of a high-wire act?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: trapeze tsuwm #205811 05/17/2012 4:50 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Just asked my daught-in-law about the word and she called it tightwire but I also found highwire and tightrope. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: trapeze BranShea #205829 05/20/2012 8:58 AM Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 13 Mit stranger Mit stranger Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 13 I've always called them tightropes, thinking a trapeze was the hanging bar thing that an acrobat swung from. Actually, just googled it. Wikipedia agrees with my first understanding of trapeze. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: trapeze Mit #205831 05/20/2012 11:19 AM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague If you had clicked the link in the first post it would have given you direct evidence. Images can tell as just as much as words. ;~) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: trapeze BranShea #205923 05/30/2012 5:19 AM Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 13 Mit stranger Mit stranger Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 13 Haha that'll teach me to not bother checking links. Or it should anyway, not sure that it will. Old habits and all that. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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