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单词 be good
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be good
b. Used jokingly, familiarly, or patronizingly of an adult, originally in humorous exhortations to proper behaviour, as be good (typically as part of a valediction), if you can't be good, be careful.
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1907 B. Scott (title of song) If you can't be good—be careful.
1908 S. E. White Riverman iii. 29 Well, good-bye, boys... Be good!
1911 Maclean's Mar. 96/2 Well, old man, if you can't be good, be careful.
1921 Collier's 19 Mar. 5/1 At the time when she first asserted herself as an element to be locally reckoned with, Mayme McCartney was a bad little good girl.
1951 T. Rattigan Who is Sylvia? iii. 267 Good night, ladies. Be good.
1958 S. O'Hanlon Gather no Moss iii. 38 In response to Mr. Hubble's shout the secretary appeared. ‘Yes, sir?’ ‘Tea!’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Bloody good girl, Maggie. Adores me. 'Fraid I'm past it, though.’
1999 D. Francis in T. White Britpulp! 293 Pretty please, just be a good boy, fuck off and don't come back until you have procured me some chemicals.
2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iv. 130 Like the style, pal. Like it a lot. Be good. An' remember: if you can't be good, be careful.
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