Verboticism: Dejablues

'You'd think they'd learn...'

DEFINITION: v. To be angry and disappointed (and secretly embarrassed) when your children grow up to make the same foolish mistakes that you did. n. The emotion parents feel when they see their children make the same mistakes they did.

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Dejablues

Created by: Psychicsi

Pronunciation: day-zyar-bloo-s

Sentence: Groucho and Binky were hoping to send their daughter Nelly to university, but were suffering dejablues when she packed herself off to the circus

Etymology: From de-ja-vu (the feeling of repeating a past event) and having the blues (depression)

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