Henry Rollins

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

American Musician

Richard Thaler

It's hard to have any idea of how much money is enough to finance an appropriate lifestyle in retirement. But if a lump sum is translated into a monthly income, it's much easier to determine whether you have enough put away to afford to stop working.

American Economist

Weyes Blood

Good singing is learning how to transmit learning musical information with your voice in a way that everybody can relate to. But as a woman you just get a lot of criticism because everyone sees you like a raw lump of clay that needs some help.

Jerome Boateng

I think it's very important that you have a good relationship with the fans. You can't lump everyone together as a fan - there are different types of fans - but I think it's important to speak to them and get to know them.

German Athlete

Sandra Cisneros

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

American Author

Joe Satriani

When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.

Stacey Solomon

I don't have time to sit down and airbush my lumps and bumps. I don't want to either, because they're all a part of my life and what I've been through and who I am.

Jameela Jamil

The doctor said, 'You have a lump on your breast'. Hearing those words was a reminder, a kick up the bum if you like, telling me that life is very unpredictable.

English Celebrity

Anohni

We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.

English Musician

Gilbert Highet

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Scottish Writer

Usually refers to a solid, palpable piece you can hold.

Physical Object

'Lump' doesn't imply something is bad, just that it's in a formless mass.

Not Always Negative

When 'lumping together', distinctions between grouped items are ignored.

Lack of Differentiation

Can also refer to grouping abstract concepts or categories.

Not Always Physical

A 'lump' in medical terms often prompts a health investigation or concern.

Medical Concern

Medical 'lumps' can emerge quickly, indicating potential urgency.

Possible Immediacy

When describing a person as a 'lump', it implies clumsiness or laziness.

Negative Descriptor

This use is informal and can be a mild insult or teasing among friends.

Informal Insult

Indicates begrudging acceptance, often with no good alternative.

Resigned Acceptance

Often used in fixed expressions about accepting unwelcome situations.

Expression Context

 And the national conversation over a period of a few months moved from the sort of theatrical lumps of coal in the parliament to discussing kind of which industrial-scale battery chemistry was the best for building large-scale renewable batteries. So I think that the important lesson is by that time in my life,

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 and he said essentially I've considered the issue I understand where you're coming from but having considered it all I'm still going to vote the way I'm going to vote but I wanted to reach out to you and say I understand that you disagree with me and I'm going to take my lumps on this one this didn't please

How social media can...

 when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth. And you start seeing these networks, this cosmic web of structure forming. And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it. And you see how the dark matter lumps up,

The design of the...

 She found a lump in her breast. She went through many months of harsh chemotherapy and painful surgeries, and then just as she was ready to jump back into the dating world, she found a lump in her other breast and had to do it all over again. Kathy recovered, though,

How to fix a broken...

 A mosquito lands on your arm, injects its chemicals into your skin, and begins to feed. You wouldn’t even know it was there, if not for the red lump that appears, accompanied by a telltale itch. It’s a nuisance, but that bump is an important signal

How does your immune...

 the majority are going to pick the old bit. Why? Because we all know the new bit will be characterless and boring. So where did all the lumps and bumps on buildings go? The shadows, the textures, the three-dimensionality, the high points of light.

The Case for Radically...

 basically, it's between being happy in your life, and being happy about your life or happy with your life. And those are two very different concepts, and they're both lumped in the notion of happiness. And the third is the focusing illusion,

The riddle of experience...

 which is really characteristic and it's basically this fleshy lump which has lots of bacteria in it, which is able to illuminate and then that attracts in all their prey and they're able to eat it with their incredibly wide mouths.

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 i've been an early advocate of all this kind of technology however you lump it you've heard some writers today who talked about how they embraced their typewriters and to death i actually was extremely eager to get

Predictions of tech's...

 traveled many miles from all over northern India to seek his help I have four five lumps in my neck I get dizzy sometimes my eyes roll up my neck turned

Lump

A small piece or amount of something, especially if it is solid.

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To group together without order or distinction.

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A swelling or abnormal growth, especially one that appears suddenly.

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An awkward or clumsy person.

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To accept or tolerate a unpleasant situation or person.

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Physical Object

Not Always Negative

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