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Dear John
noun
- a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fianc茅 that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce:
Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- any letter terminating a relationship.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Dear John1
Example Sentences
This one differs from something like, 鈥淭he Notebook,鈥 or 鈥淢essage in a Bottle,鈥 or 鈥淒ear John,鈥 in that there's actually two stories going on.
Swift doesn鈥檛 portray herself precisely as a victim as she did in old tunes such as 鈥淒ear John鈥 or 鈥淎ll Too Well,鈥 to name two of her masterpieces about unscrupulous men; nor is there anything dewy-eyed about 鈥淭he Alchemy,鈥 which likens falling for a new guy to a chemical imbalance.
鈥淚 accept it for all editors who toil in the darkness of an editing room ... to create a unique, believable world born to the imagination. And most of all, I want to thank John, my dear John.鈥
But not long after Mr. Angeloni opened his account, he got his own Dear John letter.
Supporters of the kakariki karaka - a green parakeet - put up billboards reading: "Dear John, don't disrupt the pecking order".
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