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The scenic route your sentence takes when it doesn't trust you to still be listening.
means Wandering along a winding, indirect path instead of moving in a straight line — whether it's a river, a road, or a thought.
from From the Maeander (modern Büyük Menderes), a famously twisting river in ancient Asia Minor (now Turkey). Its course was so coiled and looping that Greek and Roman writers used its name as the go-to image for anything that wound and doubled back on itself — and the word slid from riverbanks into language, now describing sentences, conversations, and minds that take the scenic route.
- origin
- named after a winding river in Turkey, Maeander
- in writing
- often a symptom of not knowing the point yet
- nature's version
- rivers do it to slow down and avoid erosion
- secret virtue
- sometimes the wandering is where the thinking happens