boo-hoo breakfast
n.— «By this time last year, the Spring Hill Elementary School PTA had welcomed teachers back to school with a breakfast, consoled sad parents with a boo-hoo breakfast and begun plans for the school’s fall festival.» —“Rift grows over suspension of school’s PTA” by Jeffrey S. Solochek in Spring Hill St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Aug. 29, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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