agony column
English
Noun
agony column (plural agony columns)
- (chiefly Britain) A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters.
- 2005, Tim Lindsey, Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting, page 165:
- Underlying the discussion of values in the magazine's “agony” columns is a theme of changing values, and we see a society aware of the difference between traditional and modern values and beginning to move away — albeit to a small degree — from traditional attitudes and behaviour.
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References
- agony column in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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