单词 | lock up your daughters |
释义 | > as lemmaslock up your daughters P2. lock up your daughters: used humorously as a warning to prepare for the arrival of a sexually attractive, promiscuous, or predatory male, or the occurrence of a sexually-charged event.The phrase was popularized by the musical Lock up your Daughters (1959), lyrics by Lionel Bart (1930–99), book by Bernard Miles (1907–91), an adaption of Henry Fielding's Rape upon Rape (1730). ΚΠ 1928 Commerc. Telegraphers Jrnl. Aug. 159/3 Mothers, lock up your daughters! Brother Durkin, alias ‘Kid’ Durkin, has bought himself a shiny new Essex coupe, with full equipment, including a horn. 1943 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 8 Mar. 1/2 Robb said that many men at the Hutchinson Naval Air station are ‘good Kansas boys’ but warned his audience to ‘lock up your daughters’ when the professional sailors arrive. 1989 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 25 Lock up your daughters. Raunchy rockers Bon Jovi..are about to spark a 1989 version of Beatlemania in Sydney. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 131/1 Batten down the hatches, lock up your daughters, tie down the bassbins: this is a monster of a drum'n'bass affair. 2011 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 23 Aug. c5 Lock up your daughters, Americans: Prince Harry will be spending a few weeks in Arizona and California doing Apache helicopter training. < as lemmas |
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