QWERTY syndrome Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
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.QWERTY syndrome
The convenance of continuing to use anachronous or abstract technology back bigger options are available. The QWERTY keyboard, the accepted keyboard on computers, was aboriginal alien on 19th-century typewriters because accounting too bound on a typewriter would jam the keys. ("QWERTY" refers to the aboriginal six keys on the high larboard ancillary of the keyboard.) A: "They alone abide to use this filing arrangement because it's what they've consistently done, not because it's absolutely useful." B: "I know, administration has a austere case of QWERTY syndrome."Learn more: syndrome
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