Guilt Tripとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

guilt trip (plural guilt trips)

1. (idiomatic) A feeling of shame or embarrassment, especially if self-indulgent, unwarranted, exaggerated or felt over a significant period of time.

   The prosperous business owner whose infant daughter had a serious genetic disease decided to find a foundation whose annual report was less based on guilt trips. She appreciated that another foundation's annual report had much more emphasis on what they were able to accomplish with the money her family donated.

2. (idiomatic) An act that produces such a feeling.

   The fund raisers were criticized for too much of their appeal to donors being a guilt trip about how there would be more starving feral kittens unless donors significantly increased their donations.

   He still resented his grandmother laying a guilt trip on him about starving children in China when he didn't finish her home-grown cabbage that he detested.

派生語

Further reading

• “guilt trip”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “guilt trip, n, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “guilt trip”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “guilt trip”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “guilt trip” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

語源

Denominal verb of guilt trip. First use appears c. 1977 in the defunct periodical Spare Rib.

動詞

guilt-trip (third-person singular simple present guilt-trips, present participle guilt-tripping, simple past and past participle guilt-tripped)

1. (informal, transitive) To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual.

   to guilt-trip someone into [doing] something

   • 1999, David A. Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do, page 136:

     I have been fully expecting my father to guilt-trip me, to lay it on really thick about what a terrible son I am, to basically, talk down to me like I was some kind of idiot.

   • 2007, Ronald Potter-Efron, Rage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger, page 106:

     First, he tries to guilt-trip her into taking them.

   • 2011, Brian Goins, Playing Hurt: A Guy's Strategy for a Winning Marriage, page 18:

     In this book, I don't want to guilt-trip you into action.

   • 2024 July 20, Maureen Dowd, “Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Given that Biden said it would take the Lord Almighty to make him drop out, I have no doubt that Pelosi has been using their shared Catholic faith to guilt-trip the president into understanding the stakes, and what she thinks the Lord Almighty would want.

   • 2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     New Zealand’s minister for resources, Shane Jones, said he will not be guilt-tripped by “apocalyptic images” of mining and its effects on the environment put forward by his critics, as he embarks on a major mining push.