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Sunday scaries

Sunday scaries noun: anxiety felt on Sunday evenings by people who have to return to work on Monday morning, about the weekend (and free time) being over and the pressures of the workweek resuming.

Noun

Sunday scaries pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) Anxiety felt on Sunday evenings by people who have to return to work on Monday morning, about the weekend (and free time) being over and the pressures of the workweek resuming.
    • VON: Sunday scaries is that feeling when the weekend's over, Monday's coming, you got stuff due, but you try to ignore it, you just sit there. / SARAH: (Laughs.) Yeah, thanks, Von. Sarah thinks . . . Von's right, Sunday scaries.2019 January 15, Richard Guare, Colin Guare, Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled, Guilford Publications, →ISBN, page 204
    • ... with a heavy dose of rest, and Mondays consequently shifted to “do the bare minimum” days. As a result, I no longer experienced the so-called Sunday scaries on a regular basis. I looked forward to the week ahead with minimal stress.2019 April 9, Julia Dellitt, Get Your Life Together(ish): A No-Pressure Guide for Real-Life Self-Growth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24

Examples of Sunday scaries in a sentence

  • I had a friend who suffered from what she called the Sunday scaries.2019 September 24, Clay Scroggins, How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise, Zondervan, →ISBN...
  • He enjoys it because it helps him combat the “Sunday Scaries”—that feeling on Sunday night when the anxiety and anticipation about the week ahead overpower your ability to be a normal human.2020 July 20, Marissa Finn, Golden Shit: The Biggest Mistakes I Made Starting My Business and What I Learned, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page...
  • But when I did, I fell victim to a phenomenon called the "Sunday scaries." Wherein a perfectly good Sunday was wasted by that sense of impending doom because Monday was right around the corner.2022 December 6, Jen DeLuca, Well Traveled, Penguin, →ISBN, page 62:

Questions about Sunday scaries

What does Sunday scaries mean?
Sunday scaries means anxiety felt on Sunday evenings by people who have to return to work on Monday morning, about the weekend (and free time) being over and the pressures of the workweek resuming.
How do you use Sunday scaries in a sentence?
I had a friend who suffered from what she called the Sunday scaries.
What part of speech is Sunday scaries?
Sunday scaries is a noun.

Words near Sunday scaries in the dictionary

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  6. Sunday scaries
  7. Sunday school
  8. Sunday schools
  9. Sunday strip
  10. Sunday strips
  11. Sunday-best

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