goldilocks

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used to describe a situation in which something is or has to be exactly right:

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The Mayor takes a Goldilocks approach to his city's 18 percent growth: It's not too fast and not too slow.

Its nickname is the Goldilocks Bird, because it nests only when water levels are "just right".

a girl in a traditional story who wanted things to be exactly a particular way, saying, for example, that one bed was too hard, one too soft, and one just right

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