Having a nightmare but in the day, so it's just a mare since it's in the day.
Basically, another way of saying you're having a living nightmare, ie you're in a really shitty situation.
Today's been AWFUL. I thought my English Literature exam was in the afternoon, but it was actually in the morning. I missed the exam, and now I've been told I've been held back. It's like all my exam-anxiety nightmares came true! I'm truly having a mare!
Often used when things have gone completely tits up and you have no control over what the fuck is going on.
Small "mares" are usually caused by physics practicals, but larger ones are usually due to women.
The Ultimate Mare: Going out with a fit girl for two years, splitting up while living with her, sleeping with her friend, sleeping with ex again a few weeks later, pulling another of your ex's friends a few weeks after, then telling your ex the gory details including the fact that you did not play it safe with either and that she may now have got de baad AIDS.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”