ˌthree-ring ˈcircus noun1. [singular] American English informal a place or situation that is confusing because there is too much activity:
I don’t know how you can work in that office – it’s like a three-ring circus.2. [countable usually singular] a
circus that has three areas in which people or animals perform at the same time
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