| 单词 | mind your manners! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmind your manners! d. transitive. to mind one's manners: to remember or take care to be polite and well-mannered; frequently in imperative as mind your manners! ΚΠ 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) iii. 8 Before that Boys can rise to Master-Tanners, Humble those Boys must be, and mind their manners; Despising Pride, whose wish it is to wreck 'em. a1804 J. Tobin Faro Table (1816) iv. i. 40 Father bid me mind my manners in town, And keep myself smart and sober, and genteel, or Perhaps you might not take to me. 1849 E. C. Gaskell Let. 8 Oct. (1966) 85 He had been ‘minding his manners’ till then, but this was too much; so he first choked, & then..took to Bible language till his adversary fairly stood rebuked. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. viii. 131 Do eat!.. Never mind your manners. I know you're starved. 1952 H. F. M. Prescott Man on Donkey Prologue ii. 14 She was to be sure and mind her manners. 1993 A. Gay Brooch of Azure Midnight 263 Chesarynth carried the weight of other people's expectations—pass this exam, wear this suit, mind your manners—oh, you've spilt your dinner, just look at my clean floor. < as lemmas |
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