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the limbo where your stomach, your debts, and your destiny all refuse to pick a side
means Not resolved, calm, or fixed in place — whether describing a restless mind, an unpaid bill, a turbulent sky, or an undecided matter.
from From 'settle,' which traces back to Old English 'setlan' — to seat, to place, to bring to rest — itself rooted in 'setl,' a seat or place to sit (a cousin of modern 'settee' and 'saddle'). Add the negating prefix 'un-' and you get the opposite of seated and steady: something that won't take its chair. The financial sense (an 'unsettled' account) grows naturally from the idea of accounts being 'settled' — literally brought to rest — once paid.
- legal sense
- debts and disputes still hanging unresolved
- frontier sense
- land no one has claimed or tamed
- weather sense
- forecasters' polite word for chaos coming
- stomach sense
- the body's vote of no confidence
- latin root
- from settle, to bring to rest
indian land claims — over 500 million acres of disputed territories between indigenous nations and the u.s. government remain unresolved
western sahara territory — territory occupied by morocco since 1975, still unresolved by un with sahrawi arab democratic republic claiming sovereignty
kashmir dispute — india and pakistan have fought wars over this territory since 1947, remains one of world's longest unresolved territorial conflicts