| 单词 | to love them and leave them |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto love them and leave them c. to love them and leave them and variants: (of a man, esp. a heartless lover) to seduce and abandon women (chiefly in imperative). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > fall from chastity (of woman) [verb (intransitive)] > attempt seduction > seduce and abandon women to love them and leave them1897 1897 E. W. Wilcox Three Women I. 24 We love them, and leave them; deceive, and respect them. a1925 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) (title of song) Love 'em and leave 'em. 1930 Amer. Speech Dec. 92 Love'em and leave'em. 1938 W. G. Hardy Turn back River 33 Love 'em and leave 'em; that was the idea. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xvi. 259 I wouldn't try to keep me if I was you... Love me and let me leave. 1975 H. McCutcheon Instrument of Vengeance vii. 123 ‘I have many interests.’ ‘But no girls?.. You just love them and leave them, no?’ 1994 A. L. Reynolds Do Black Women hate Black Men ii. 13 If the norm in the black community is for young men to ‘love 'em and leave 'em’, it seems reasonable for the girl to retaliate. < as lemmas |
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