social hangover
- noun
- Informal
:
resaca social
- She often experiences a social hangover after attending large parties or family gatherings.
Examples
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Many introverts know the feeling of a social hangover all too well after a busy weekend.
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After a long evening with friends, he woke up with a social hangover the next day.
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After the party, I felt a terrible social hangover.
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Do you ever experience a social hangover after large gatherings?
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After a long evening with friends, he woke up with a social hangover the next day.
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Many introverts know the feeling of a social hangover all too well after a busy weekend.
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She often experiences a social hangover after attending large parties or family gatherings.
Antonyms
How Tired
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun-noun/adj+noun composition where 'social' specifies the source and 'hangover' denotes an after-effect; a learner who knows 'hangover' as an after-effect and 'social' as relating to social interaction can readily infer emotional exhaustion following socializing. Although 'hangover' is metaphorically extended from its literal alcohol sense, the extension is transparent and follows a common compositional pattern, so B1 learners who know the constituents should understand it.
Etymology
The term social hangover joins social and hangover because it borrows hangover from drinking, when too much alcohol makes you feel bad the next day. That's why social hangover means 'emotional tiredness' or 'feeling drained' after long or intense social events.