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emotional baggage in British English (ɪˈməʊʃənəl ˈbæɡɪdʒ) nounthe feelings you have about your past and the things that have happened to you, which often have a negative effect on your behaviour and attitudes Examples of 'emotional baggage' in a sentenceemotional baggage Your son has a lot of emotional baggage to carry for one so young.Get rid of anything no longer of use to you and stop carrying around emotional baggage.You have so much emotional baggage involved that you can't see the wood for the trees.Once he recognised this, and talked the chimp down, he could play without the negative emotional baggage.We also understand they may not come home at all and, if blessed with a reunion, they may carry emotional baggage few could understand. |