juggle

/'dʤʌgl/

Thân thiện

The performer can juggle five colorful balls at once.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To keep several objects in the air at the same time by repeatedly throwing and catching them.
   • To handle or deal with several tasks, responsibilities, or activities at the same time.
   • To manipulate or arrange things, especially figures or facts, in a clever or deceptive way to achieve a desired effect.

2. Noun:

   • The act or skill of keeping several objects in the air by juggling.
   • A deceptive or fraudulent rearrangement or manipulation.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • The street performer can juggle five balls while riding a unicycle.
  • Many parents have to juggle a career and family life.
  • The accountant was accused of trying to juggle the books to hide the losses.

• Noun:

  • His amazing juggle with flaming torches captivated the audience.
  • The financial report was a clever juggle of numbers to present a profitable image.

Advanced Usage

• "to juggle with": To handle or toy with something, often ideas or facts, in a careless or deceptive manner.
  • Politicians should not juggle with the truth.
• "to keep (several balls) in the air": An idiom related to juggling, meaning to manage many different things at once.
  • She's skilled at keeping all her project balls in the air.

Variants and Related Words

• Juggler (n): A person who juggles objects as a performance.
  • The juggler at the circus was incredibly talented.
• Juggling (n/adj): The act or skill of juggling; or describing something that involves juggling.
  • He practices juggling every day. / She has a juggling act for the party.

Synonyms

• Verb: Balance, manage, handle, manipulate, shuffle.
• Noun: Deception, trickery, manipulation.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Juggle around: To move or rearrange things frequently or in a disorganized way.
  • He's always juggling his schedule around at the last minute.

Related Idioms

• A juggling act: A situation where someone must skillfully balance several demanding activities or responsibilities at once.
  • Working full-time while studying is a real juggling act.

Học thuật

Noun

1. throwing and catching several objects simultaneously
2. the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression

Verb

1. hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
   • the player juggled the ball
2. throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
3. deal with simultaneously
   • She had to juggle her job and her children
4. manipulate by or as if by moving around components
   • juggle an account so as to hide a deficit
5. influence by slyness

Từ đồng nghĩa

• juggling
• beguile
• hoodwink