happy camper
Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
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How to use happy camper in a sentence
You might get the spine, but the glochid might then stick in your tongue, or in your lip, and then you’re going to have that reaction in your mouth or in your lip and you won’t be a happy camper.
How to remove cactus spines (including ones stuck in your throat) | Kate Baggaley | October 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe grew up in Montana and uses folksy phrases like “happy camper” and “total baloney.”
David Lynch Discusses Transcendental Meditation in Los Angeles | Sean Macaulay | April 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI have crazy energy and I am not hungry, but I am not a happy camper either.
British Dictionary definitions for happy camper
informal a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with happy camper
A satisfied participant, a contented person, as in She loved the challenge of her new job; she was one happy camper. This expression is also often put in the negative, as in She hated the heat and humidity of the southern summer; she was not a happy camper. [Slang; mid-1900s]
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