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usage of "guilt trip" #1 (permalink) Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:04 am   usage of "guilt trip"
 

Hi,

Could you tell me if you find the following sentence correct and natural, please

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My wife made me feel a guilt trip over me not having been able to get to the dinner with her family last Friday.


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usage of "guilt trip" #2 (permalink) Tue Dec 11, 2007 15:03 pm   usage of "guilt trip"
 

That sentence is unnatural on a few different levels.

You either put someone on a guilt trip or you give them a guilt trip because of or for something.

A better way to say it would be, "My wife put me on a guilt trip because I didn't get to dinner with her family last Friday," or, "My wife gave me a guilt trip for not having dinner with her family last Friday."
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usage of "guilt trip" #3 (permalink) Tue Dec 11, 2007 17:03 pm   usage of "guilt trip"
 

Hi, Jamie

Now I see how it works. Thank you very much !
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