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A situation where every door you open leads to a smaller room.
means A difficult or awkward situation with no easy or comfortable way out.
from From Late Latin 'praedicamentum,' meaning 'quality asserted of a thing,' rooted in 'praedicare' (to proclaim or declare) — the same root that gives us 'predicate.' It started as dry scholastic and logical jargon, one of the categories philosophers used to classify statements about things. By the 1500s it had wandered out of the logic classroom into everyday speech, souring along the way into something much less neutral: not just a 'category' you're placed in, but a tight spot you're stuck in.
- origin
- From Latin for being publicly accused or exposed
- distinction
- Worse than a problem, better than a catastrophe
- linguistics
- Originally a term in formal logic classification
- vibe
- Implies you walked into it yourself