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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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Lead Fever

AKA: Shift Lead Fever

Pronounced: (LEED FEEVUR)
When a shift lead or a coworker on a higher pay scale constantly calls out of work due to their sick time paying well enough to live on with little to no consequences as a result.

Can also be used as a way to say somebody at work is faking being sick.
Josh called out of work for the 5th time this month! Our boss wont punish him because he’s a senior technician and “cant afford to lose him”. Must be Lead Fever.
by Discount Tire September 14, 2025
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Leaded Generation

The name of the demographic cohort between the "Silent" generation and "Generation X," currently called the "Baby Boomer" generation. After the waning of Baby Boomer political power, approx 2030-2040, the newly predominant Millennial generation will update the name of the Baby Boomer generation to the Leaded Generation.

This new name will describe the generation's selfish and misguided behavior, as well imply the causal link between poor decision making and exposure to lead sources (such as lead paint and leaded gas) which were common pollutants prior to the Clean Air Act and other regulatory action.
1) Many families owned homes before the Leaded Generation ruined it for everyone.

2) "Freedom for me but not for thee" - Common Leaded Generation adage
by amotherfuckingsorcerer May 9, 2021
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Shed Lead's Key

A shed made out of Lead's key
Shed Lead's Key is OP
by dylanjz2013 December 3, 2025
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tough lefty lead

Hopping around within the bases with the intent to distract and taunt a lefty with your lead
Jackie robinson's shinanigans on the base paths create a tough lefty lead
by Minnkon o ryan April 12, 2014
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Lead

Jacky is lead.
by Officialgarybusey May 23, 2020
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Red lead

"My mother was inside, cooking the meat for the gravy. You know, red lead -- pork bones and veal. It was a Sunday."
by Cantaloupe Jones October 16, 2022
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