"sad trombone" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From a plaintive trombone (or sometimes trumpet) sting played during game shows to indicate a player losing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sad trombone",
      "name": "en-interjection"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tim McMahan, “All About Survival and Spotify”, in The Reader, 25 December - 31 December 2014, page 11",
          "text": "Last week the Wall Street Journal reported LP sales surged 49 percent last year and that factories are struggling to keep pace, but in the end, vinyl sales represent only 2 percent of U.S. music sales (*sad trombone*).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 31, “Chutes and Ladders: Legislative Bill Edition”, in City Weekly, page 10",
          "text": "Any time a player's token lands on the top of a chute, the token must \"slide\" down to the final square where that chute is pictured (sad trombone).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jeff Shore, Follow Up and Close the Sale: Make Easy (and Effective) Follow-Up Your Winning Habit, page 5",
          "text": "And then you never hear from that person again. (Wah-wah...sad trombone.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to indicate failure or disappointment."
      ],
      "id": "en-sad_trombone-en-intj-yipKMqQZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "failure",
          "failure#English"
        ],
        [
          "disappointment",
          "disappointment#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Used to indicate failure or disappointment."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "world's smallest violin"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wah-wah"
        },
        {
          "word": "womp womp"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sad trombone"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From a plaintive trombone (or sometimes trumpet) sting played during game shows to indicate a player losing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sad trombone",
      "name": "en-interjection"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "world's smallest violin"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tim McMahan, “All About Survival and Spotify”, in The Reader, 25 December - 31 December 2014, page 11",
          "text": "Last week the Wall Street Journal reported LP sales surged 49 percent last year and that factories are struggling to keep pace, but in the end, vinyl sales represent only 2 percent of U.S. music sales (*sad trombone*).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 31, “Chutes and Ladders: Legislative Bill Edition”, in City Weekly, page 10",
          "text": "Any time a player's token lands on the top of a chute, the token must \"slide\" down to the final square where that chute is pictured (sad trombone).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Jeff Shore, Follow Up and Close the Sale: Make Easy (and Effective) Follow-Up Your Winning Habit, page 5",
          "text": "And then you never hear from that person again. (Wah-wah...sad trombone.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to indicate failure or disappointment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "failure",
          "failure#English"
        ],
        [
          "disappointment",
          "disappointment#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Used to indicate failure or disappointment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wah-wah"
    },
    {
      "word": "womp womp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sad trombone"
}