limbonoun
uk/ˈlɪm.bəʊ/us/ˈlɪm.boʊ/limbo noun (UNCERTAINTY)
[ U ] an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement:
Until we have official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
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Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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Doubt & ambivalence
limbo noun (DANCE)
the limbo
a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backwards to go under a low bar that is made lower each time he or she goes under it
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Dance & choreography
- arabesque
- ballerina
- ballet
- ballet shoe
- ballroom dancing
- ceilidh
- corps de ballet
- dance
- dance studio
- dancer
- fandango
- flamenco
- pirouette
- pointes
- polka
- prima ballerina
- quickstep
- rumba
- strut your stuff idiom
- war dance
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