Word of the day - Not gonna look so stupid syndrome

A syndrome in which someone is feeling really stupid or embarrassed and lashes out desperately by pushing the other person stuff off of something or lashes out violently to avert the humiliation back to the other person ... This condition mostly occurs in daily politician life.

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