Describes how da realization dat da mussed-up-haired ex-White-House jerk who'd promised to "make America great again" actually ended up doing da opposite was quite late in coming for so many US citizens.
So wif da supposed impending arrest of da egotistical former-prez jerk and self-proclaimed "America's 'trump' card", it's finally donned on us dat perhaps --- just PERHAPS --- said clueless rich bug wasn't such a wonderful knight in shining armor after all.
This person usually will have an evenstory or event worse than the situation you are or have experienced. The opposite of a "one-upper"
I was telling Maria about how I wrecked my motorcyle last week and Crystal, the one-downer, proceded to explain how she was in an accident and lost her leg, punctured a lung and apparenly the hospital food was shiite and came back to life as hedgehog..
(n.) Someone who tries constantly to out-do your bad personal experiences with their own bad stories, which in their eyes, is always worse.
Me: Oh man, I just had the worst day at work! I got fired...
Tim: Oh, sorry about that. Mine wasn't too much better. I forgot to save a really long document before shutting down my computer. Such a bad day!
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An annoying person who responds to hearing someone else’s experience or problem by immediately telling a similar story about themselves with a much less interesting or boring corresponding story. (Note: The story will be much longer than you could ever imagine or want)
Person: Last summer I went to Thailand and rode on an elephant.
One Downer: Last summer I rode my horse in my backyard while my brother watched. My brother also rode the horse. then we went inside my house and had a sandwich.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)