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The law of holes, or the first law of holes, is an adage which states: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." It is used as a metaphor, warning that when in an untenable position, it is best to stop making the situation worse. [1] [2] The second law of holes is commonly known as: "When you stop digging, you are still in a hole." [3]
The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly, that we can say they were almost made for each other. [ 2 ] The Oxford English Dictionary has as its earliest citation Albany Fonblanque , England under Seven Administrations , 1837, "Sir Robert Peel was a smooth round peg, in a sharp-cornered square hole, and Lord ...
The most direct example is the electron hole; a fairly general theoretical description is provided by the Dirac sea, which treats positrons (or anti-particles in general) as holes. Holes provide one of the two primary forms of conduction in a semi-conductor, that is, the material from which transistors are made; without holes, current could not ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Fear or disgust of objects with repetitive patterns of small holes or protrusions. Not to be confused with Trypanophobia. The holes in lotus seed heads elicit feelings of discomfort or repulsion in some people. Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of ...
Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce received one opportunity to ask the media a question on Super Bowl LIX's opening night and didn't hold back.
Murray calls the first version "nine holes" and the second version "three men's morris" or "the smaller merels". [2] In this variant of the game, there is a winning strategy for the player who goes first, unless the first player is not allowed to place the first piece in the centre, in which case neither player has a winning strategy.
Duty, honor and discipline may mean obeying an order you know to be misguided – and later cause a feeling of having been betrayed by your leader. The great moral power of an army, as Shay puts it, makes its participants more vulnerable to violation, and to a sense of guilt or betrayal when things go wrong.
The three main ways to adopt lean thinking are, unsurprisingly: "Aha!" moments by seeing someone behave in a striking way, or hitting upon a new idea by reading a book, visiting a workplace, or being beaten over the head by an old time sensei. Aha! moments are powerful, but unfortunately rare, and need the right conditions to occur.