boiling frog syndrome Idiom, Proverb
pre-menstrual syndrome
emotional crises the week before menstruation, pms Judy says pms causes most of her personal problems.
China syndrome|China|syndrome
n.,
informal From the title of the movie with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon. The possibility that an industrial nuclear reactor might explode, literally affecting the other side of the planet (as if by eating a hole through the earth all the way to China.)
Antinuclear demonstrators are greatly worried about the China syndrome.
Vietnam syndrome|syndrome|vietnam
n.,
informal An attitude in government circles that diplomacy may be more effective in solving local political problems in other countries than the use of military force, stemming from the failure of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam.
The pundits of Foggy Bottom display the Vietnam syndrome these days when it comes to Iran.boiling frog syndrome
The abortion to accept, acknowledge, or act adjoin a ambiguous bearings that will gradually access in severity until it alcove adverse proportions. It is a allegory taken from an anecdotal apologue about baking a frog, in which a frog placed in baking baptize will anon try to save itself, but one placed in air-conditioned baptize that is gradually brought to a abscess will not apprehension the calefaction until it is above to death. Many environmentalists allege naysayers of accepting baking frog syndrome, not accepting that accident is actuality done until the apple is attenuated above repair.Learn more: boiling, frog, syndrome