professional victim

professional victim

slang A derisive term for someone who claims to receive mistreatment from others, usually as a way to get attention. Boy, he's really the professional victim these days. What is he claiming I did to him this time?
See also: professional, victim
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • social justice warrior
  • SJW
  • Stacy
  • special
  • snowflake
  • snowflakes
  • (special) snowflake
  • red-headed stepchild
  • stepchild
References in periodicals archive
Denise Welch slams Piers Morgan as he labels her 'a professional victim' in spat about mental health
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Understandably still angry and upset at the impact Piers branding her "a professional victim" could have on others struggling out there, Denise then made a series of points about mental health on Saturday, posting: "I have spent 30 yrs speaking out about the stigma surrounding depression.
Denise in blast at Morgan over jibe
And Joshua, 26, is confident the 30-year-old will become his 17th professional victim as he targets WBA Super, IBO and WBO champ Tyson Fury.
It's a Breaze for Joshua; BOXING
Joshua (below), 26, is sure the Californian will be his 17th professional victim on June 25 as he targets WBA Super and WBO champ Tyson Fury.
JOSH: NEXT FIGHT A BREAZE; BOXING
Flanagan's former boss said he constantly saw himself as the target in his conflicts with WDBJ-TV colleagues and described him as a "professional victim".
Journalists murdered live on air 'shot in the head'
There's vain misery twins Amy and Sally, dour Joel who believes hens lay eggs "out of their necks", insult-hurling professional victim Aaron, who reckons: "I have to say what I think." (You don't.) And oneupmanship Kieran, nailed by Adjoa: "If you've been to Tenerife, he's been to Elevenerife."
Oh B-Brother what a bunch
Many Democrats seem to prefer the sensibility of Fluke, a professional victim and virtuoso whiner.
Countering hysterics in Michigan
Another professional victim is Tarique Ghaffur, the police ofcer who claims he was racially discriminated against by the Met force.
We're all a big bunch of softies
But for county captain Handy, the irony is that Mason's professional victim in the singles, Chester-le-Street's Darren Crowle, may soon be running up against the same opponent again on the PGA Europro Tour, two rungs below the European Tour on the pro ladder.
Golf: Hard to be a Handy man, says Mason; Debut winner in a hurry to turn pro TEEING OFF
The 29-year-old Redcar boxer had been lined up as local hero McFadyen's eighth straight professional victim in front of a partisan full house but ripped the script with a big left hook after five fast-flowing rounds.
Boxing: Reid shows his title credentials
Katz); (23) Admissions to University-Based Programs: Faculty Assessment of Current Practices and Implications for Navigating the Future (Kaetlyn Lad); (24) Strategies for Surviving the Professional Victim Syndrome: Perspectives from Superintendents on Navigating the Political Waves of Contemporary Leadership (Walter S.
At the Tipping Point: Navigating the Course for the Preparation of Educational Administrators. The 2007 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
SCOT Colin Bain became Amir Khan's eighth professional victim as the teenage sensation eased to a second-round stoppage in Cardiff.
Boxing: SKELTON'S REVENGE IS SO SWEET
In her new memoir, Madam Secretary, Albright has few kind words for Arafat, calling him at various points, a "professional victim," and a "manipulator and survivor." During a visit to her farm in Virginia, her two-year old grandson let out a "piercing scream" at the first sight of the Palestinian leader.
Dame theory: what Madeleine Albright can teach Bush about toppling dictators
I choose not to be a professional victim, because I don't think it's true and because people don't have much tolerance for it."
E pluribus umbrage: the long, happy life of America's anti-defamation industry
Udolpho), and Ellena (The Italian), is a professional victim or
Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes