"Frodo Baggins" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Frodo Bagginses [plural], Frodo [alternative]
Etymology: From the character in the Lord of the Rings series. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Frodo Baggins (plural Frodo Bagginses)
  1. A hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life. Wikipedia link: Lord of the Rings
    Sense id: en-Frodo_Baggins-en-noun-A-2R5kb6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Fictional characters
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          "text": "For instance, in the Wallabiez team in Sinapsi (Milan) a big visible chart is used, where every day a different person is nominated the \"Frodo of the Pomodoro\", i.e. the bearer of the timer who is responsible for loading it and tracking: this allowed to the team to realize they were much less productive after lunch, so they started to colour the morning pomodori differently, so to make the problem visible",
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          "ref": "2019, David Gordon White, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography, Princeton University Press, page 223:",
          "text": "It is my belief that Krishnamacharya did eventually train his massive intellect upon the Yoga Sutra, and that the highly sophisticated \"Vine\" did originate with him—but that he did not come to Patanjali's work until relatively late in life, during his Chennai years; that is, at about the same time as his former pupil (and prime contender in terms of legacy) B.K.S. Iyengar. I seriously doubt, how-ever, that he was ever the Frodo Baggins of modern Yoga that his biographers have made him out to be.",
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