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单词 prim and proper
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prim and proper
prim and proper adj.
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1855 H. W. Beecher Star Papers 171 Farewell—wild, wayward, simple stream!..In a few moments you will be grown to a huge millpond;..then, prim and proper, with ruffles of willow and aquatic bushes on each side, you will trip through the meadows.
1886 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 12 Sept. He is too prim and proper.
1924 Times 9 Jan. 10/2 The lecturers—so exasperatingly prim and proper, so imposing in their Academic gowns and hoods.
1968 R. Hudson Grace is not Blue-eyed Blond (1972) ix. 144 It is such a pity that religion has become nicey nice and prim and proper.
2006 Mirror (Nexis) 3 Apr. 30 The prim and proper roundtoe pumps we've all been running around in.
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