chewed the spoon

1. Chewing the spoon is getting invited to an event that you were looking forward to, only to be rejected by the host when you get there.

2. In general, it can also be used to describe something that doesn’t go the way you thought things were going to go. At worst, it puts you in a shitty situation for no reason.

Definition 1.

“Hey, I thought your buddy Zach was going to be here at this party?”

“He was, but Amanda broke up with him last week and since it’s her party he had to go…”

“Damn, sounds like he chewed the spoon…”

Definition 2.

“ I was really hoping to go see someone in New York this weekend, but the person I was going to visit ghosted me, leaving me stuck in New York with no money, and ruined my plans… I really chewed the spoon on this one”