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All roads lead to rome

No matter what path you take, you will always end up in the same place. Represents an inevitabilistic worldview, one where you cannot do anything to change what will happen. That what is happening, no matter how bad it seems, was destined to happen. All

Rome symbolizes something you can't avoid. Could be a place. A feeling. A person. And thus, the detached emotional state of finding yourself in a lonely and depressing, yet familiar situation. Or, it could represent life and death. In a lifetime, you lose everything. People you know; people you love, and eventually, yourself. There is nothing you can do to stop the cycle of life from occurring.

Life is a constant struggle of moving on from the things that happened in the past. People lie to you. Bad things happen to you. Can you really forget these things? No, you always end up back in Rome.

The white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, commonly associated with this statement, symbolizes the anxiety caused by the unstoppable passage of time. Time is always ticking, and time is the separation between past loss, current joy, and future loss. Slowly but surely, you will lose everything until you experience the ultimate loss: Your life.

No matter what, all good things must come to an end.
Person 1: No matter what, every relationship I'm in ends in heartbreak. Is it all my fault?
Person 2: No, son, all roads lead to Rome.

Person 1: I love video games. However, every time I have fun on a game, it eventually gets boring, and I switch to a new game. The cycle never ends.

Person 2: You're just wasting time, kid. All roads lead to Rome.
by illwhatibleed October 6, 2025
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Leads

A never-ending cycle of thinking whether or not they'll come in the circle of potential customers. Usually not convinced.
Chris: Oh look John, it's the guy from LinkedIn I called and talked to the other day!

John: Are you imbecile? They're called Leads.
by fuickquck November 25, 2021
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Leading on bastard

a leading on bastard is a ex that you got back together again, but lead you on making you think that they actually like you, but instead they were just using you for your feelings and not for who you are as a person
Person 1: I can't believe he would do that to me, he's a leading on bastard!!

Person 2: I'm so sorry for you I hope you get better
Person 1: thanks..
by Xxx little_sh*txxX March 2, 2023
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lead dinner

Shooting yourself in the mouth, suicide, usually used in a sarcastic tone whenever one makes a mistake.
When the waitress said "Enjoy your meal', I said "Thanks you too." Looks like it's time for a nice lead dinner.
by Jeb Hankman May 30, 2018
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Leading someone on

Euleina Wright, or 'leina'
"yeah she's leading someone on"
"Oh, pulling a Leina, eh? Poor guy"
by beepveeppeep July 27, 2023
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lead rule

The negative outcome of the Golden Rule.

You treat me like shit and I will do the same, no questions asked.
Karen decided to take her Kareness out on me, so I gave her a taste of the Lead Rule.
by slangctionary November 8, 2021
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Lead-Paint Job

From Tidewater Pidgin and Qarsherskiyan English, a Lead-Paint Job means a shooting. It is inferred that paint means blood and lead means lead bullets in this case, when pondering the origin of the term, which first surfaced by at least 1998 in downtown Newport News, VA from the slang and terminology of a now irrelevant gang that was mostly comprised of Qarsherskiyan Vodou practitioners.
There was a terrible Lead-Paint Job at Richneck Elememtary and a 6-year-old nearly ended his teacher, bloody awful, eh?
by Bad News VA ain't that bad March 13, 2025
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