单词 | guilt trip |
释义 | guilt tripn. colloquial (originally U.S.). An episode of severe, often excessive or unjustified self-reproach, esp. one deliberately provoked by another person; a state of mind in which a person is preoccupied by overriding feelings of guilt. Also: an attempt to instil such feelings in a person. Frequently in to lay a guilt trip on. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [noun] > feeling of guilt guilt1690 guilt trip1972 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > self-reproach self-condemnation1591 self-accusing1602 self-reproving1608 self-accusation1616 self-reproofa1631 self-reflection1656 self-reproach1683 self-reproachment1802 self-reproval1823 self-reproachingness1850 guilt trip1972 1972 J. Rossner Any Minute I can Split 174 I want to make it clear that nobody's sending me on any guilt trip over my money. 1978 H. Selby Requiem for Dream 147 You start laying guilt trips on me and I don't need it, okay? 1984 C. Boylan Last Resorts xiv. 159 Mum, don't lay a guilt trip on us. 1995 J. F. Garner Once upon more Enlightened Time 13 Ever the master of the guilt-trip, he finally said, ‘And this is how you kids repay me?’ 2001 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 1 May 10 Everyone in my family has a tendency toward manipulative behavior, but it's going beyond that. I can't begin to describe the guilt trip each one separately is laying on me! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1972 |
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