One of my favorite sites that have to do with words is onelook.com, a compendium of many web dictionaries that includes Phrases and Idioms. For example I came across this the other day:
63 Phrases having to do with 'ratio' such as aspect-ratio, body mass ratio, bore-stroke ratio, burst ratio
95 Phrases having to do with 'factor' such as the x factor, risk factor, chill factor, fudge factor, or human factor.
Does the first tell you something about the human need to compare, measure?
Perhaps the second illustrates our need to find explanations for what we observe.
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