trial balloon
C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A tentative, deniable proposal floated to gauge reaction before anyone commits to it.
Let's float a trial balloon on a two-year term and see if they bristle before we put it in writing.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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