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28 relations: Arabs, Barry Goldwater, Boiling frog, Book of the Later Han, Cambridge University Press, Chengyu, Chinese culture, Creeping normality, Domino effect, Ell, Fable, Foot-in-the-door technique, For Want of a Nail, Gansu, Geoffrey Nunberg, Horace Scudder, Idiom, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Lydia Sigourney, Metaphor, Miller, Moral, National Defense Education Act, Rescission (contract law), Sichuan, Slippery slope, United States Senate, Victorian era.
Arabs
Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1964.
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Boiling frog
The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.
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Book of the Later Han
The Book of the Later Han, also known as the History of the Later Han and by its Chinese name Hou Hanshu, is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Later or Eastern Han.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Chengyu
Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expression, most of which consist of four characters.
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Chinese culture
Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.
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Creeping normality
Creeping normality or death by a thousand cuts is the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period.
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Domino effect
A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events.
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Ell
An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinō, cognate with Latin ulna) is a unit of measurement, originally a cubit, i.e., approximating the length of a man's arm from the elbow (literally meant the bend (bow) of the arm (ell)) to the tip of the middle finger, or about 18 inches (457 mm); in later usage, any of several longer units.
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Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim or saying.
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Foot-in-the-door technique
Foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique is a compliance tactic that aims at getting a person to agree to a large request by having them agree to a modest request first.
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For Want of a Nail
"For Want of a Nail" is a proverb, having numerous variations over several centuries, reminding that seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave and unforeseen consequences.
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Gansu
Gansu (Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ་ Kan su'u) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.
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Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg (born June 1, 1945) is an American linguist, researcher and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
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Horace Scudder
Horace Elisha Scudder (October 16, 1838 – January 11, 1902) was an American man of letters and editor.
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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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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a classic children's book written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond first published in 1985.
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Lydia Sigourney
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century.
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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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Miller
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a cereal crop to make flour.
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Moral
A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.
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National Defense Education Act
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was signed into law on September 2, 1958, providing funding to United States education institutions at all levels.
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Rescission (contract law)
In contract law, rescission has been defined as the unmaking of a contract between parties.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Slippery slope
A slippery slope argument (SSA), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is a consequentialist logical device in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel's_nose
