emotional baggage
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6.2
- noun
- /ɪˈmoʊʃənl ˈbæɡɪdʒ/
- Informal
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carga emocional
- I don't want your emotional baggage on my doorstep.
- carries emotional baggage
Well, survivors have to carry all of the compassionate and emotional baggage in the relationship.
- Well, survivors have to carry all of the compassionate and emotional baggage in the relationship.
- It was so bogged down with emotional baggage.
- And in a case like this, I would very strongly suspect that there is emotional baggage or trapped emotional energies.
- It's more communication issue than just purely an economic issue when it comes to the emotional baggage that you bring to money.
- And I'm thinking about myself and you know, how I'm dealing with stress and how I'm dealing with stuff that's in my head, emotional baggage.
Examples
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There's no reason to load all this emotional baggage on you.
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We also understand that they may not come home at all, and if blessed with a reunion, they may carry emotional baggage few could understand.
Blog text (19) -
Or do you think that getting rid of stuff kind of helps you deal with that emotional baggage and or shame?
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Our public education system must accept all students regardless of prior knowledge, financial status, or emotional baggage.
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It's more communication issue than just purely an economic issue when it comes to the emotional baggage that you bring to money.
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I know that we often need an outlet and someone we can dump all our emotional baggage on.
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Few issues in U.S.-Indian relations are laden with so much emotional baggage.
Academic text (2006) -
And you'll be an even better writer because of your life experiences, and because you won't have the emotional baggage of regret.
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And a lot of the emotional baggage of being a lonely kid—and for that matter, a lonely adult—is part of it.
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She is working hard to overcome her emotional baggage from previous relationships.
Synonyms
7
7.4
An old hurt that comes back when you remember it
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5.6
Long-lasting emotional harm from a very upsetting event
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5.0
A lasting hurt in your feelings after a very upsetting event
Have problems from the past that still affect your feelings or actions
Antonyms
How Burdensome
Surface Forms
Morphology
emotional + baggage
The combination of 'emotional' (about feelings) and 'baggage' (things you carry) yields a clear metaphor of feelings or experiences one carries, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a general sense. However, mapping that metaphor to the specific notion of unresolved past issues that affect behaviour requires some pragmatic or cultural knowledge, so it is not fully literal. This metaphorical but widely used construction appears in many languages, which helps comprehension but still makes it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Emotional baggage creates a picture of past feelings as heavy suitcases you carry with you; emotional means feelings and baggage means suitcases. That's why it means 'old feelings or problems that are not solved and still affect how you act'.