Lexical Compendium
Wait... what is this? Sometimes I come across a word, phrase, idiom, quote, reference, bit of slang, person of interest, etc that either I don't know or I find amusing, interesting, etc. This is a collection of those items so that I can refer back to them in emails, texts, etc.
Recent Entries:
"This sounds schemey. Redolent of thwart."
Something that the character Tom Wambsgans says in the television series "Succession," in Season 2, Episode 8.
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- IMDB: Succession Reference ID imdb-succession
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interregnum
- A period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.
- An interval or pause between two periods of office or other things.
As in:
...the interregnum between the discovery of radioactivity and its detailed understanding.
or:
You are a weak monarch in a dangerous interregnum.
The latter comes from a line of dialog from the character Gerri in the television series "Succession"
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- Definition: interregnum Reference ID definition-interregnum
- succession-season-4-episode-6-recap - episode recap from thewrap.com Reference ID succession-season-4-episode-6-recap
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