happy campers
Pleased participants together
Happy campers are people who are content or satisfied with a situation.
The phrase appears most often in the negative: The delayed flight left us with a planeload of not-so-happy campers.
Someone described as not a happy camper is displeased or frustrated.
The image evokes cheerful participants at summer camp, making the ironic negative use particularly pointed.
- contentWhat something contains
- pleasedFeeling satisfaction or joy
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- joyfulFeeling great happiness
- all smilesVisibly very pleased
good vibes · merriment · glee · s'mores · camaraderie · friendship · teamwork · laughter · bonding · team spirit · stargazing · blissful · felicity · storytelling · elation · tents · cooperation · cheerful
happy campersmalcontents
Chronically dissatisfied people
complainers · grumblers · whiners · gripers · bellyachers
happy camperstroublemakers
Those causing problems deliberately
problem children · agitators · rabble-rousers · squeaky wheels · disruptors
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