(of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
‘I'm listening to a guy mansplain economics to his wife’
‘He tries to mansplain it with a weak athlete analogy, but she cuts him short.’
‘Bravo, too, for the general misogynist stereotyping, victim blaming and general mansplaining.’
‘I was accused of "mansplaining" and of writing "a terrible article" that should never have been published.’
‘For them to pretend that "diet culture" and "size zero" start and end within the exclusively female world of women's magazines is a massive pile of mansplaining, patronising nonsense.’
‘Allow us to mansplain.’
‘How very sweet of him to offer to mansplain the budget to the dumb blonde who just got herself elected Senator.’
‘Can someone mansplain to me why the price of a Hershey bar was so weirdly stable until 1970?’
‘Don't mansplain female sexuality.’
‘Leave it to him to mansplain why it's so bad having the women-folk working.’
‘Where are we going to find someone to mansplain heterosexual lit?’