not happy, Jan
English
editEtymology
editMade famous by a television advertisement for Sensis's (Telstra's Directories and Advertising division) Yellow Pages product, which was aired in Australia from 2000–2003. See the Wikipedia article.
Pronunciation
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Phrase
edit- (Australia) Used to express displeasure at someone else's incompetence.
- 2011, Craig Cormick, In Bed with Douglas Mawson: Travels Around Antarctica, unnumbered page:
- One young chick is standing on its toes, flapping crazily, squawking a long ‘not-happy-Jan’ cry in penguin-speak.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:not happy, Jan.