juggleverb
uk/ˈdʒʌɡ.əl/us/ˈdʒʌɡ.əl/juggle verb (ENTERTAIN)
[ I or T ] to throw several objects up into the air, and then catch and throw them up repeatedly so that one or more stays in the air, usually in order to entertain people:
We all watched in amazement as he juggled with three flaming torches.
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Carnival, fairground & circus
- acrobatics
- amusement arcade
- amusement park
- big dipper
- big top
- big wheel
- coconut shy
- contortionist
- custard pie
- Dodgem (car)
- fairground
- Ferris wheel
- Indian club
- juggler
- merry-go-round
- midway
- Punch and Judy show
- ringmaster
- trapeze
- unicycle
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juggle verb (MANAGE)
C2 [ T ] informal to succeed in arranging your life so that you have time to involve yourself in two or more different activities or groups of people:
Many parents find it hard to juggle children and a career.
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Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- live to fight another day idiom
- manage
- roll
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
- wolf
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juggle verb (CHANGE)
[ T ] informal to change results or information recorded as numbers so that a situation seems to be better than it really is:
It won't matter if we juggle the figures - no one will know.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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