单词 | wheels within wheels |
释义 | wheels within wheelsSEE SYNONYMS FOR wheels within wheels ON THESAURUS.COM Complex interacting processes, agents, or motives, as in It's difficult to find out just which government agency is responsible; there are wheels within wheels. This term, which now evokes the complex interaction of gears, may derive from a scene in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:16): “Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” [c. 1600] Words nearby wheels within wheelswheel of life, wheels, wheels in motion, wheelspin, wheel static, wheels within wheels, wheel trim, wheel window, wheel wobble, wheelwork, wheelwright The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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