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Welcome to English in a minute! So you
know what happy is. And medium comes
between small and large. To find a happy
medium. So is this idiom about feeling
kind of happy?
How is it going with your neighbor?
Is he still complaining about your playing
the trombone at night? He was. But it's
fine now.
How did you guys work it out? Well, I
agreed to not play after 10pm. And he
agreed to not bang on the walls.
Sounds like you guys found a happy
medium. A happy medium means a
compromise, or a situation that is
acceptable to both sides. You meet in the
middle and it makes both sides happy. We
often say "to find a happy medium."
And that's English in a minute!