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Latin for 'the mess we already agreed to stop fixing.'
means The current state of affairs, especially the existing social, political, or economic arrangement that people either defend or want to change.
from Straight from Latin 'status quo' — literally 'the state in which' — shorthand for the fuller phrase 'in statu quo res erant ante,' meaning 'the state in which things were before.' Diplomats and lawyers used it to pin down the existing arrangement before any changes were made, and English borrowed the clipped phrase wholesale in the 1800s, keeping its Latin form intact rather than translating it.
- literal meaning
- the state in which (things stood)
- favorite habitat
- boardrooms allergic to change
- disguise
- calls itself stability, is actually inertia
- defenders
- usually the ones winning right now