Idiom
sad panda
Meaning
An unhappy or disappointed person.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is a sad panda because his team lost the game.”
“When the coffee shop ran out of his favorite roast, he was a total sad panda.”
“The disappointed applicant became a sad panda upon realizing that his dream job had been offered to someone else.”
Examples
simple
“He is a sad panda because his team lost the game.”
contextual
“When the coffee shop ran out of his favorite roast, he was a total sad panda.”
complex
“The disappointed applicant became a sad panda upon realizing that his dream job had been offered to someone else.”
Origin
The term emerged in 1999, originating from "Sexual Harassment Panda," an episode of the animated comedy series South Park. The name belongs to a mascot character whose repeated failures to educate children on legal liability result in his signature expression of melancholy.
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