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make the world go around en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To play an essential role in causing the things in life to work as they should; to underlie the fulfillment of the needs of human existence.
   • Money makes the world go around. And every year we make resolutions to save more of it, invest it more profitably and spend more wisely. 2014 January 15, Ilyce R. Glink, Samuel J. Tamkin, “How to get your finances in home-buying shape”, in Washington Post, retrieved 05 Oct 2015:
   • "But say, Jeff, it's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. . . . Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!" 1907, O. Henry, “Cupid á la carte”, in Heart of the West:
   • Waller said agriculture makes the world go around, and there would be no clothing and no food without it. 2015 September 12, Alisa Boswell, “FFA student talks about her passion”, in Potales News-Tribune, retrieved 05 Oct 2015:
   • Gabriele Salvatores's "Mediterraneo" is a deliberately charming comedy whose most daring conceit is that love, in one form and another, makes the world go around. 1992 March 22, Vincent Canby, “Review/Film Festival: Roundelay Of Love On an Isle In Wartime”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Oct 2015:
   • "It takes all kinds of people to make this world go around. . . . We all need to work together," she said. 2012 April 18, C. J., “Mann knows it's a fine line between eccentric, crazy”, in Minneapolis StarTribune, retrieved 05 Oct 2015:

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Translations (4)

fr faire tourner le monde (Translations) · pl rządzić (Translations) · fi pyörittää maailmaa (Translations) · ru заставля́ть мир верте́ться (Translations)