agony aunt

English

Noun

agony aunt (plural agony aunts)

1. (informal, British) A writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical.

   You should write in to the agony aunt; she'll sort it out for you.

2. (informal, British) Someone who people commonly go to for advice about personal problems, often annoyingly so.

   I'm sick of everyone coming to me with their problems - I never wanted to be an agony aunt!

Synonyms

• (writer of an advice column): advice columnist

Translations

writer of an advice column

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 答問專欄作者／答问专栏作者 (dáwèn zhuānlán zuòzhě), 答问专栏作者 (dáwèn zhuānlán zuòzhě) (no equivalent exists, lit., "answering-questions-column writer")

• Danish: brevkasseredaktør c
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• Finnish: ihmissuhdekolumnisti
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: doctora corazón f
• Turkish: güzin abla

someone who people commonly go to for advice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾桶 (zh) (lājītǒng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
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• Finnish: leelian lepotuoli
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can