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> Waves and spirals Like "swings and roundabouts"? I've never come across this variation.

• agumonkey 9y ago
  I never saw yours either (is it a common saying ? I'm not a native english speaker anyway, that would explain that).
  • duggan 9y ago
    Common in Britain and Ireland, at least - in context it just seemed like it might be a variation on the same idiom!
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      Mine just come from seeing predator/prey graphs https://duckduckgo.com/?q=predator+prey+graph&t=ffsb&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=predator+prey+graph&t=ffsb&iax=ima... and a really weird feeling that, indeed things do roundabouts, but it's not a perfect back-to-start revolution, the soil was raised but the people on it not so much (but they do feel they progressed). A circle that doesn't close properly is a bit a spiral. </math-envy>
      • aptwebapps 9y ago
        I really like your expression, although maybe not everybody would appreciate the distinction.