shopper's block n. The inability to think of a suitable present for a particular person.
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With luck and a fake case of chicken pox, the desperate writer can finesse a deadline extension. For anyone struggling to overcome shopper's block during the holiday season, however, there can be no hope of getting Jesus Christ's birthday postponed.
—Patricia Marx, "Santa Secrets: What to get your nearest and dearest," The New Yorker, December 11, 2006
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