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The point of no return where turning back costs exactly as much as pushing on.
means The middle point between two places, times, or states — halfway along the route, the project, or the journey.
from A plain compound of Old English roots: 'midd' (middle) joined to 'weg' (way, road, path). The same 'weg' is a cousin of words like 'wagon' and 'voyage,' all tied to the ancient sense of moving along a track. The carnival meaning — the central avenue of sideshows and rides — is much later, blooming in American fairgrounds, most famously the Midway Plaisance at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which lent its name to the strip of amusements ever after.
- naval turning point
- 1942 battle that broke Japan's Pacific momentum
- carnival origin
- Named after Chicago's 1893 fairgrounds Midway Plaisance
- island airport
- Tiny atoll once hosted transpacific Pan Am flights
- linguistic balance
- Implies equal pull from both directions
battle of midway — june 1942 naval battle where us defeated japanese fleet, turning point in pacific war
midway atoll — us territory in north pacific, 1,300 miles northwest of honolulu, home to albatross colony