| 单词 | pretty fanny's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(only) Pretty Fanny's way c. (only) Pretty Fanny's way: behaviour characteristic or expected of a person. Used esp. to express tolerance of an annoying habit or tendency of a friend or acquaintance. Cf. sense A. 22b. Now rare.Apparently with allusion to quot. a1718. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > characteristic qualitya1400 trick1576 way1671 knack1674 ways?1687 Pretty Fanny's waya1718 shtick1948 a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 130 And all that's madly wild, or oddly gay, We call it only pretty Fanny's way. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 26 The exuberant frolics of Meg's temper, which were to them only ‘pretty Fanny's way’. 1832 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 94 Boswell..excuses it as ‘pretty Fanny's way’. 1893 Atlantic Monthly July 54/2 That is nothing to what the losing party always says, though without rushing to print, in such days of excitement as follow a contested election. It is pretty Fanny's way. 1903 M. Gray Richard Rosny xxxiv. 402 That little huffiness was but the tender fierceness of the dove, pretty Fanny's way. 1953 Times of India 3 Jan. 6/5 In Churchillian days the fount of political honours does not trickle; it spouts... Well, that is pretty Fanny's way. < as lemmas |
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