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单词 to dress to the left
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to dress to the left (also right)
e. intransitive. Of a man or boy: to arrange the genitals in relation to the fork of the trousers. Esp. in to dress to the left (also right).
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1946 C. Mergendahl His Days are as Grass xvi. 149 When I went down to have my pants altered at the tailor's, the tailor asked me what side I dressed on.
1966 Guardian 18 Mar. 10/4 ‘We are 'dressing' in the middle this year, man,’ a pop singer explains.
1967 New Statesman 31 Mar. 450/2 I detected some sag on the right-hand side of the trouser front and got the fitter to pin it back. ‘No no no!’ said Roy... ‘Mr. Silver dresses to the left.’ The fullness on the right was critical.
1999 B. Bell Just Take your Frock Off viii. 75 ‘Which side do you dress?’—like the tailor asks you. To this day I always put them on one side.
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