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happy medium

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a happy medium
a way of doing something which is good because it avoids being extreme. What you want from a holiday is a happy medium between activity and relaxation. (often + between) I'm either exercising all the time or I'm doing nothing but I can't seem to find a happy medium.
See also: happy, medium


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The happy medium for stump-clearing is the lord of all beasts, who is the elephant.
Between the purely physical rykor and the purely mental kaldane there was little choice; but in the happy medium of normal, and imperfect man, as she knew him, lay the most desirable state of existence.
 
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