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Used to describe adults in their late twenties still living at their parents'. It comes from the movie "Tanguy" by Étienne Chatiliez.
"Mon fils est un Tanguy: il a 35 ans ans, est célibataire et vit toujours chez moi. Je ne sais pas quoi faire pour qu'il parte vivre de lui-même!"
"My son is a Tanguy: he is 35, single and still lives at my house. I don't know what to do to make him go and live on his own!"
Submitted August 2020 by do