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When arrivals outpace your ability to pretend you were ready.
means A sudden, large inflow of people or things arriving at once.
from From Latin influxus, 'a flowing in' — built from in- ('into') plus fluere ('to flow'), the same root that gives us fluid and fluent. It first described rivers and tides pouring into harbors before it widened to cover crowds, refugees, emails, and anything else that shows up all at once and overwhelms the doorway.
- origin
- Latin influxus, literally a flowing in
- usage tell
- always sudden, never trickles, always floods
- favorite habitat
- news reports about tourists, refugees, or emails
- honest synonym
- too many, all at once, help