Such a party pooper
Posted by Arthur on October 15, 2009
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One of my friends from The Johnsonian staff said he has thought of some words and expressions to teach me.
He asked me if I knew what stick in the mud was.
Nope.
It’s like party pooper, he said.
I had no idea what party pooper was.
“Ok, good night,” he said, giving up teaching his Englishless friend.
It’s like downer, another friend said, after my first friend had given up.
No success. I didn’t know what downer meant.
I understood that stick in the mud, party pooper and downer were synonyms.
But that was it.
A very patient third friend explained to me that the three words can be used to describe people who say they are going out but always find an excuse for not going.
She also said that stick in the mud can be stubborn and that downer can be pessimistic.
Party pooper in Portuguese is couch and cookies (describing a person who is stuck in the couch eating cookies).
