Mintie moment
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Etymology edit
From an advertising campaign for Minties, an Australian brand of mint confectionery, involving cartoons of embarrassing occurrences captioned "It's moments like these you need Minties".
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Mintie moment (plural Mintie moments)
- (Australia, colloquial) A situation of acute embarrassment or failure.