📚 Retail therapy, noun. ❓ Definition (humorous • mass noun): The practice of shopping in order to make oneself feel more cheerful. ❗️ Examples: 1. Stop for a reviving cafe au lait or a glass of wine before setting off for more retail therapy. 2. Today James Carleton guides us through that most untested of psychological self-help techniques - retail therapy. 3. We stood up, heading off into the busy town for some traditional retail therapy. 4. The town itself offers a multitude of upmarket shopping malls to explore retail therapy Malaysian style, alongside plenty of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian restaurants to try out local delicacies. 5. Now come on, slap some make up on and let's go do some retail therapy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic