| 单词 | pretty please |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspretty please pretty please adv. [compare German bitte schön] colloquial used in emphatically polite or imploring request; cf. please adv. ΚΠ 1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 2 Dec. 21/2 It does not seem necessary to say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’, for hourly service, counted in the bond, either to servants or children, but they can be told to do things in a pleasant way, that is as far from domineering as it is from the ‘pretty please’ fashion. 1913 Indianapolis Star 29 Jan. 16/4 She begged him with ‘please’ and ‘pretty please’ to see her. 1925 S. V. Benét Tiger Joy 27 Never had a mammy to teach me pretty-please. 1959 A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo v. 74 She was saying, Please. Pretty please. 1964 Time 28 Feb. 28/3 Can I, pretty please? 1973 C. Mason Hostage vii. 106 Pretty please, with sugar on it. 1994 Q. Tarantino & R. Avary Pulp Fiction iv. 156 I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fuckin' car. < as lemmas |
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