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- What is the difference between inevitable and ineluctable
Both inevitable and ineluctable are words in the dictionary that mean something is impossible to avoid So do we use them in a same or different context?
- Is there an idiom that means it was something inevitable?
Is there an idiom that means "it was something inevitable"? I am not sure if it's the case, but there's this idiom, it was something like "this was ought to happen", but it was an actual idiom instead of just a phrase and I don't remember what it was exactly, I had it on the tip of the tongue, but I have it no more
- Idiom for trying to avoid misfortune, but it happens anyway
That is not irony It would be irony only if avoiding the result caused the result That's not the case in OP's question, as it's perfectly possible for the result to be inevitable regardless of trying to avoid it Palpatine's quote is also not ironic, as saving others did not cause his master's inability to save himself
- Etymology of the expression happy-go-lucky?
A person who is described as “happy-go-lucky” is a generally carefree, laid-back and relaxed soul, taking life as it comes, gazing on the world through a rosy pink Panglossian haze and blithely unconcerned about the inevitable heart-rending horrors the future holds
- score high highly - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Note that the UK preference for the explicitly adverbial form (highly) is probably much higher than suggested by that chart - most titles indexed by Google Books NGrams are US-published, so the inevitable "mis-classifications" skew UK trends towards US trends far more than in the opposite direction
- A noun defining a person who believes in luck or time?
If something bad is destined to happen to a person, I will not think of it as bad luck as a fatalist, but just an occurrence provided by the flow of time and space (this is becoming metaphysical I know), something inevitable (good and bad luck cannot change it) Luck is about chances and decision-making goes with it still
- The meaning of corruption of the best is the worst of all
the act of corrupting otherwise honest men and women of power by *external forces or the inevitable internal corruption that happens as otherwise good people embrace unethical means to achieve what they think are good results It would seem to be the second, but it's not clear what specifically is mentioned as the cause
- suffixes - Is triggerer correct, or is there some other word to . . .
The takeaway here is that whatever is at the bottom of the list is "the trigger", if you consider each cause and effect to be inevitable consequences of one another Otherwise, the "trigger" is event lowest on the list that is continuously connected to the final effect using nothing but (reasonably) inevitable steps
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