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agony column  noun British informal1A column in a newspaper or magazine offering advice on personal problems to readers who write in.I never thought I would ever end up writing to an agony column for advice, but here I am doing just that....- Well I suppose they don't need to write in to an agony column.
- He was a pioneer composer in Hollywood briefly, but he soon spent much of his time on newspaper work, including an agony column.
1.1 dated A personal column.Sherlock Holmes put down the Daily Gazette where he had been perusing the agony column, his daily ritual, and retrieved a letter from his coat pocket....- This string of intimate messages, popularly known as the Agony Column, has long been an honored institution in the English press.
- I read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column.
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