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idiomthe/a melting pot1 used about a place where people from many different countries come to live together and form one society, or about an activity that is influenced by many different styles or ideas:We lived in Manhattan when it was a melting pot for immigrants from all over Europe.The music scene is a melting pot of cultures and ideas, instruments and influences.This is hardly the first time that the American melting pot has been tested by large numbers of newcomers.2 BrE if a decision or the final result of something is in the melting pot, no one knows yet what it will be:The future of the West Highland Railway in North Wales is still in the melting pot.We could still win the trophy - we only have to win four or five games and everything will be back in the melting pot.
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