”Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude
25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English
All great but this one is particularly wonderful in its specificity.
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