have a normal one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a normal one
form: having a normal one
form: had a normal one
form: had a normal one
Senses: examples: text: President Donald Trump is having a normal one. On Sunday morning, he mused that perhaps the people behind Saturday Night Live should be sued or prosecuted, which, in fairness to Trump, is a thought most Americans have had at some point or another.
ref: 2018 December 16, Matthew Dessem, “Watch the Saturday Night Live Sketch That Enraged Donald Trump”, in Slate, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:
text: Scientists, having a normal one, created mutant toxic fruit flies using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.
ref: [2019 October 2, Maddie Bender, “Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies' Toxic Abilities”, in VICE, archived from the original on 09 May 2023:
text: The House GOP is having a normal one
ref: 2019 November 19, Ryan Bort, “Republicans Now Questioning Whether Purple Heart Recipient Is Loyal to the United States”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
text: Sick or high or just having a normal one, it is perfectly understandable that Trump would be melting down in spectacular fashion. His only concern for the last four years has been getting re-elected for four more years, and that's not going well at all at the moment.
ref: 2020 October 7, Heather Digby Parton, “Trump's incoherent COVID bluster is destroying him — but America continues to suffer”, in Salon.com, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2022:
text: Arizona Rep. John Fillmore, pictured here having a normal one
ref: 2022 January 27, William Vaillancourt, “GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill to Let Him and His Pals Overturn Elections”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
text: How are Republicans taking all of this? ¶ They're having a normal one.
ref: 2022 August 9, Sara Boboltz, “What To Know About The FBI's Surprise Raid On Trump's Mar-A-Lago Resort”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
text: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, and Twitter owner Elon Musk is having an extremely normal one about it. Threads is top-to-bottom a Twitter copycat and is launching at a time when Twitter seems to be having a turbulent old time of it, thanks largely to Musk's fiddling ever since he took over. Now Musk's sending in the lawyers, and getting really quite petty about it.
ref: 2023 July 7, Rich Stanton, “Elon Musk mocks 'the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram' as he sends Twitter's lawyers in on Threads”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2023:
text: Once again, guys, a normal comment on the internet. This person is clearly having a normal one. [Laughs]
ref: 2025 March 10, NFKRZ [Pseudonym; Roman Albertovich Abalin], 4:48 from the start, in I GOT MY EU RESIDENCY! 3 years after I left Russia 🇷🇺, via YouTube, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2025:
glosses: To have a public meltdown, especially on the Internet.
examples: text: After a weird couple of years, Phoebe Bridgers is ready to have a normal one.
ref: 2021 September 21, David Brusie, “Phoebe Bridgers stayed home and became a star. Now she's finally on tour”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, normal, one.