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Theresa Syndrome 

When you have exhibited behaviour that is similar to that of a Theresa. Typically, this is fun, happy, having a good time and smiling. Theresa Syndrome will sometimes describe someone who is having a laughing fit. It can also be used to describe someone who is likable, cute and kind.

Theresa Syndrome is a good thing to have.
- "Stephanie is having a great time! She is such a nice girl!"
- "She must have Theresa Syndrome".
Theresa Syndrome by Rob Turner April 27, 2009
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Mother Teresa Syndrome 

1. Mental health condition suffered by the overly religious whereby the religious, actively deny treatment or medications to facilitate increased suffering.

2. The imposition of suffering, denial of treatment, or services, to those who you are responsible to care for with the expressed intent of increasing misery or hastening death. (see betrayal trauma)

3. The imposition of religious beliefs to increase suffering in the efforts to elicit pleasure in the person denying, or reserving access to treatment or services.
When I presented the case for a need for an antidepressant to my doctor, after my mom died, he got all 'Mother Teresa Syndrome" on me and said, "You need to experience this without drugs so you can grieve properly."

Mother Teresa Syndrome (MTS) 

Mother Teresa Syndrome (MTS) defined as when a person feels compassionate and empathetic for short period of time.
Mr. Scrooge usually doesn't like to help people out. I think he has Mother Teresa Syndrome (MTS).

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
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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. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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