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not happy, Jan en · X

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Etymology

Made famous by a television advertisement for Sensis's (Telstra's Directories and Advertising division) Yellow Pages product, which was aired in Australia from 2000–2003. See the Wikipedia article.

Meanings

  1. (Australia) Used to express displeasure at someone else's incompetence.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:not happy, Jan.
    • One young chick is standing on its toes, flapping crazily, squawking a long ‘not-happy-Jan’ cry in penguin-speak. 2011, Craig Cormick, In Bed with Douglas Mawson: Travels Around Antarctica, unnumbered page: