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56 relations: Alcohol abuse, American Academy of Pediatrics, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Jumbo, Blind men and an elephant, Cali Cartel, Cambridge University Press, Catholic Church, Chris Christie, Conflict management, Denial, Duck test, Elephant, Elephant joke, English language, Ernesto Samper, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Berkeley, Homosexuality, Idiom, Ivan Krylov, Jimmy Durante, Jumbo (musical), Kilivila language, Kiriwina, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mark Twain, Mental disorder, Metaphor, Nigger in the woodpile, Ostrich effect, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Papua New Guinea, Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Polite fiction, Proceso 8000, Race (human categorization), Religion, Repression (psychology), Risk, Seeing pink elephants, Simile, Skeleton in the closet (idiom), Substance dependence, Suicide, Taboo, The Elephant in the Living Room, The Emperor's New Clothes, The New York Times, ..., The Stolen White Elephant, Third rail of politics, Time (magazine), Trobriand Islands, Unsaid, Value judgment. Expand index (6 more) »
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse is a previous psychiatric diagnosis in which there is recurring harmful use of alcohol despite its negative consequences.
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American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is an American professional association of pediatricians, headquartered in Itasca, Illinois.
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Billy Rose
Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist.
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Billy Rose's Jumbo is a 1962 American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye.
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Blind men and an elephant
The parable of the blind men and an elephant originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused.
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Cali Cartel
The Cali Cartel was based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca Department.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Chris Christie
Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician, former federal prosecutor, and political commentator who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
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Conflict management
Conflict management is the process of limiting the negative aspects of conflict while increasing the positive aspects of conflict.
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Denial
Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true.
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Duck test
The duck test is a form of abductive reasoning.
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Elephant
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.
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Elephant joke
An elephant joke is a joke, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Ernesto Samper
Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 3 August 1950) is a Colombian politician.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley (12 March 168514 January 1753) — known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne) — was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Idiom
An idiom (idiom, "special property", from translite, "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. translit, "one's own") is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
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Ivan Krylov
Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в; February 13, 1769 – November 21, 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors.
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Jimmy Durante
James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.
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Jumbo (musical)
Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
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Kilivila language
Kilivila (Kiriwina) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken in the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea).
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Kiriwina
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km².
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
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Nigger in the woodpile
A nigger in the woodpile or fence is a figure of speech originating in the United States meaning "some fact of considerable importance that is not disclosed—something suspicious or wrong".
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Ostrich effect
In behavioral finance, the ostrich effect is the attempt made by investors to avoid negative financial information.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Pedro Rubiano Sáenz
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (born September 13, 1932) is a cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Polite fiction
A polite fiction is a social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment.
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Proceso 8000
8,000 Process (from the Proceso 8.000) was the unofficial name of the legal investigation of events surrounding accusations that the Colombian Liberal Party candidate Ernesto Samper's 1994 campaign for President of Colombia was partially funded with drug money.
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Race (human categorization)
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Repression (psychology)
Repression is the psychological attempt to direct one's own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding them from one's consciousness and holding or subduing them in the unconscious.
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Risk
Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value.
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Seeing pink elephants
"Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens.
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Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things.
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Skeleton in the closet (idiom)
Skeleton in the closet or skeleton in the cupboard is a colloquial phrase and idiom used to describe an undisclosed fact about someone which, if revealed, would damage perceptions of the person; It evokes the idea of someone having had a (presumedly human) corpse concealed in their home so long that it had decomposed but for its bones.
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Substance dependence
Substance dependence also known as drug dependence is an adaptive state that develops from repeated drug administration, and which results in withdrawal upon cessation of drug use.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Taboo
In any given society, a taboo is an implicit prohibition or strong discouragement against something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural feeling that it is either too repulsive or dangerous, or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.
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The Elephant in the Living Room
The Elephant in the Living Room is an American documentary film about the topic of exotic pets kept in homes in the United States and about the controversy surrounding this topic.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Kejserens nye klæder) is a short tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent – while in reality, they make no clothes at all, making everyone believe the clothes are invisible to them.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Stolen White Elephant
"The Stolen White Elephant" is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood.
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Third rail of politics
The third rail of a nation's politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician or public official who dares to broach the subject will invariably suffer politically.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Trobriand Islands
The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea.
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Unsaid
The term "unsaid" refers what is not explicitly stated, what is hidden and/or implied in the speech of an individual or a group of people.
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Value judgment
A value judgment (or value judgement) is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something or someone, or of the usefulness of something or someone, based on a comparison or other relativity.
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