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Definition: HAPPY FAMILY |
HAPPY FAMILY1. A collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concord | Noun: concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue; agreement; sympathy, empathy; (love); response; union, unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace; unanimity; (assent); league; happy family. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Happy Family."
Crosswords: HAPPY FAMILY |
| Specialty definitions using "HAPPY FAMILY": HAGAR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One happy family. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) It may not be my way, but damn if there dosn't go one happy family. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Happy family, on vacation. (Even Stevens; writing credit: Sarah Jane Cunningham) | |
Clever | West Virginia: One Big Happy Family ... Really! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | One Happy Family (1961) The Happy Family (1952) A Happy Family (1935) How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family (1912) A Happy Family (1898) | |
Song Titles | We're A Happy Family (performing artist: The Residents) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A Happy family. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir John Bowring | A happy family is but an earlier heaven. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | The key to raising a happy family is rolling with whatever life throws at you. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
happy family | 105 |
happy family picture | 11 |
happy family midge | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HAPPY FAMILY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | állatóvoda. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | appyhay amilyfay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-h-i-l-m-p-p-y-y" | |
-4 letters: amplify, happily. | |
-5 letters: aliyah, family, flappy, flippy, impala, mayfly, mayhap, pimply. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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