英语词汇“prunes and prisms”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

prunes and prisms

释义

prune³ /proon/

noun (formerly also pruine, proin, proine, proyn, proyne or (Shakespeare) prewyn)

adjective

Of the colour of prune juice

ORIGIN: Fr, from L prūna, pl of prūnum (taken for a singular noun); cf Gr prou(m)non plum

prunes and prisms

Part of a formula for setting the lips into a pleasing shape, ‘serviceable in the formation of a demeanour’ (Dickens, Little Dorrit)
Hence (often prisms) a somewhat prim manner of speaking, or any trivial and superficial refinement

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