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A frog sitting on the handle of a saucepan on a hot stove. The frog in this photo was unharmed. [1] The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will ...
The boiling frog is an anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive.The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
Boiling frog – "a metaphor for so many circumstances in life when people are unwilling or unable to react effectively to crises that occur very gradually or imperceptibly," [37] used especially by Quinn to refer to creeping normality in terms of escalating environmental degradation
Investors are ‘a frog in boiling water’ after brushing off the Iran-Israel conflict too quickly, top economist says ... referring to the fable of a frog that eventually boils to death in a pot ...
Investors are starting to worry about the massive increase in debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Contrary to the allegorical story about the boiling frog, frogs die immediately when cast into boiling water, rather than leaping out; furthermore, frogs will attempt to escape cold water that is slowly heated past their critical thermal maximum. [71] The memory span of goldfish is much longer than just a few seconds. It is up to a few months long.
From the Boiling Frogs on The Dispatch At a campaign rally in Michigan a few weeks before she dropped out of the presidential race, Nikki Haley warned the frontrunner in the Republican primary.