balancing act
balancing act
Meaning:
- an action that needs a fine balance between different conditions or wishes
- to appease two or more groups having difference of opinion or action
- to move ahead while keeping a balance between two situations at loggerheads with each other
Synonym:
Adjust, harmonize, stabilize, make up for, compensate
Example:
- A working woman in our country has to constantly perform a balancing act between excelling in her career and taking care of the family.
- For establishing the new power plant in the state, the government has to make a balancing act between the investors, industrialists and the villagers whose land need to be acquired.
- Since test matches were allotted to Maharashtra stadiums, the Cricket Board of India allotted one day matches to Karnataka state as a balancing act.
- When I got a computer for my elder son, I had to buy a video game for the younger one as balancing act.
- Jack and Jone are both good employees and valuable for the company. If promotion is granted to one, other one should get a salary hike as a balancing act.
Usage:
It is used in situations where there are warring factions involved against each other, and the negotiator is trying to make everyone agree to the solution
Origin:
This phrase was first used for circus artists performing jugglery. Then slowly its usage expanded to metaphorical meaning for trying to be politically correct.