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agony aunt:

Definitions:

  1. a newspaper columnist who answers questions and offers advice on personal problems to people who write in

Examples:

  1. feel as if this baby is more important than they are . " Counsellor and agony aunt Suzie Hayman , author of the Relate Guide To Second Families ( Vermilion ) ,
  2. the bottom fell out of the knob business . Bob 's Probs - Bob 's agony aunt phone line went out of business because Bob kept laughing at peoples problems . Your
  3. challenging test . I think it must sound as if it were written to an agony aunt asking for help . Ps . I have the same problems writing in my own
  4. to Terry ' . The playlets are punctuated with letters to the editor and to agony aunt Psychic Sophie , mini-monologues which do n't quite come off . And the formula for
  5. , but are unsure where to start ? Join our panel of Love Doctors , agony aunt Denise Robertson , psychotherapist Malcolm Stern and nutritionist , Dr Sarah Berry live online on

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