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Where carry-on dreams go to get crushed by someone's golf bag.
means The enclosed storage compartment above airline seats where passengers stow bags too big for the seat pocket and too precious to check.
from A straightforward compound — 'overhead' (above the head, in common use since the 1500s) plus 'bin' (a storage container, from Old English 'binn'). The phrase itself is purely functional aviation-age vocabulary, emerging with commercial jet travel in the mid-20th century as planes grew interior storage compartments to match growing luggage ambitions.
- capacity myth
- always looks emptier than it is
- boarding strategy
- invented entire industry of early access fees
- real function
- storing regret and other people's rollerboards
- closing sound
- the click of someone else's victory