Problem Childとは意味・読み方・使い方

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problem child (plural problem children)

(euphemistic) A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior.
- 1926 March 30, “General Topic: The Problem Child”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 11 June 2009:
  
  Of recent times very much has been said regarding the problem child, but as Lady Stradbroke pointed out last week but little is being done to cope with the menace that child is to itself and to the community.
- 2006 October 21, Alan Fryer, “The Children of Woodlands”, in ctv.ca, retrieved 11 June 2009:
  
  Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle him at home.
- 2022, Tom Wright, “Scene Two: Classroom”, in I Ain’t Dumb (Modern Plays), London; New York, N.Y.; Dublin: Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 12:
  
  An’ here I am. Your dream problem child. A facety ghetto rude gyal grateful for your remarkable lack of judgeyness, an’ ready to be dazzled and inspired by your penetrating insight.
(idiomatic, by extension) Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance.

Antonym: problem-solver
- 1959 January 26, “Payoff for Pioneers”, in Time:
  
  [A]n ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon . . . proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco.
- 2009 April 16, Theresa Vargas, “Superintendent Thinks Small in Plan to Revamp Middle Grades”, in Washington Post, retrieved 11 June 2009:
  
  Locally and across the nation, middle schools have generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems.

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poster child


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JST科学技術用語日英対訳辞書での「Problem Child」の意味

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日英・英日専門用語辞書での「Problem Child」の意味

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Problem Childとは意味・読み方・使い方