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Note shortage of coffee in much of Europe: familiar experience? (4,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deja vu

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'familiar experience?' is the definition.
'deja vu' can be an answer for 'experience?' (deja vu is a kind of experience). I am not sure about the 'familiar' bit.

'note shortage of coffee in much of europe' is the wordplay.
'note' becomes 'd' (musical note).
'shortage of' means to remove the last letter.
'coffee' becomes 'java' (synonyms).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'much of europe' becomes 'EU' (European Union).
'java' with its last letter removed is 'jav'.
'jav' inserted within 'eu' is 'ejavu'.
'd'+'ejavu'='DEJA VU'

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(Other definitions for deja vu that I've seen before include "Illusion of repeated experience" , "Eerie feeling of repetition" , "The experience of thinking that a new situation has occurred before" , "Form of paramnesia" , "Imagining one's repeating" .)

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