blonde moment
- noun
- /blɒnd ˈmoʊmənt/
- Offensive
:
momento de rubia (ofensivo)
- She experienced a funny blonde moment during the meeting.
And he was going through his, he's going through his blonde moment at that time, you know, obviously I had blonde fucking hair.
- And he was going through his, he's going through his blonde moment at that time, you know, obviously I had blonde fucking hair.
Examples
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She admitted it was a blonde moment to forget her own phone number.
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I had a blonde moment when I forgot my keys at home.
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I couldn't believe my blonde moment when I locked my car keys inside the car.
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We've all had a blonde moment or two during stressful times.
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I had a blonde moment when I forgot my own birthday last week.
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Her blonde moment of forgetting the meeting time made everyone laugh.
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When he tried to use the remote as a phone, we all knew he was having a blonde moment.
Synonyms
4
7.7
A short time when an older person forgets something or becomes confused
A short time when someone does something silly or forgetful
A short embarrassing mistake you make
How Forgetful
38
6.0
- Slang
3
9.3
- Offensive
81
4.9
30
4.7
13
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
blonde + moment
The sense 'an instance of forgetfulness or foolishness' is not a straightforward compositional result of 'blonde' (hair colour) + 'moment' (short time); it depends on a cultural stereotype linking blondness with silliness. Without that sociocultural knowledge, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not reliably infer the idiomatic meaning, so the expression is non-compositional and opaque.
Etymology
Blonde moment comes from old jokes that link people with blonde hair to making small, silly mistakes. The word moment gives the image of a very short time, so the phrase means a brief period of being 'forgetful' or 'silly'.