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  • Welcome to English in a minute! So you

  • know what happy is. And medium comes

  • between small and large. To find a happy

  • medium. So is this idiom about feeling

  • kind of happy?

  • How is it going with your neighbor?

  • Is he still complaining about your playing

  • the trombone at night? He was. But it's

  • fine now.

  • How did you guys work it out? Well, I

  • agreed to not play after 10pm. And he

  • agreed to not bang on the walls.

  • Sounds like you guys found a happy

  • medium. A happy medium means a

  • compromise, or a situation that is

  • acceptable to both sides. You meet in the

  • middle and it makes both sides happy. We

  • often say "to find a happy medium."

  • And that's English in a minute!

Welcome to English in a minute! So you

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