an idea that children get that if they arent perfect they arent worth it. they constantly compare themselves to famous children, i.e. shirley temple, and have a feeling of inadequacy when they dont measure up.
most likely if you can look around and find a young child with self esteem issues, they are suffering from a shirley temple complex.
by thispseudonymsucks January 22, 2014
Get the shirley temple complexmug. Someone having a teacher student complex doesn't make their opponents teachers, any more than having a David Goliath complex makes every one of the person with the complex's opponents Goliaths.
by Solid Mantis March 10, 2021
Get the Teacher student complexmug. Fred: damn, this door is stuck.
Lisa: let me try.
Fred: no, I got it.
(door slams into his face)
Lisa: should have let me. The pickle jar complex always backfires.
Lisa: let me try.
Fred: no, I got it.
(door slams into his face)
Lisa: should have let me. The pickle jar complex always backfires.
by Xina Serene March 11, 2012
Get the pickle jar complexmug. A behavioral disorder, in which the patient behaves like a complete and utter belligerent arsehole because they are trying, vainly and way too hard, to be as punk as humanly possible. Common among snotty teenagers, but most outgrow it.
Kelsey used to be cool, but she developed a Johnny Rotten complex, and now she's this little bitch who tries way too hard to be oi oi punk rawk.
by Danny Delinquent December 22, 2003
Get the Johnny Rotten complexmug. A person who is perceived to be much dumber, ditzier and generally blonder than they actually are. Normally because a social reject of some sort- either fictional or nonfictional- is bunching them in with a group of other stupid people. Though it can also simply be from wrong information or a desire to blame someone from something. Not to be confused with the bitchy girl who just acts bitchy to help her own image.
Tailor Terry from My Life As Liz is crippled by her Marie Antoinette Complex, which prevents her as being viewed as any kind of intelligent or complex person for a long few episodes.
by PapertheWalls March 1, 2010
Get the Marie Antoinette Complexmug. The unwavering guilt of maintaining a vegetarian diet while simultaneously possessing a magnetic attraction to the consumption of the 'smokey bacon' variety of chip flavors.
"I always feel like people are judging me at the grocery store and when I buy meat-flavored chips; it's as if they know all my soy and fresh vegetable products are all lies. It's then that I remember no one gives a flying fuck what kind of chips I buy, and this is just my 'smokey bacon' complex talking."
by MshrmMiKE October 19, 2011
Get the 'smokey bacon' complexmug. The idea that a man feels hesitant about their gender status and demonstrate it through cross-dressing, speaking in an effeminate voice, and if taken seriously, making the decision to have a sex change. Named after Bruce Jenner, former 1976 Olympics decathlon champion who came out as a transgender woman in 2015.
"Bobby, what are you doing with all of Peggy's makeup?" - Hank Hill
"I'm playing pretend. I sometimes wonder what it's like to be a girl." - Bobby Hill
"Oh dear. I'm just now realizing you have a Bruce Jenner complex." - Hank Hill
"I'm playing pretend. I sometimes wonder what it's like to be a girl." - Bobby Hill
"Oh dear. I'm just now realizing you have a Bruce Jenner complex." - Hank Hill
by RyanMcCarthy July 25, 2015
Get the Bruce Jenner complexmug.