词汇 | just like jell-o on springs |
词源 | just like Jell-o on springs. Famously said by Jack Lemmon of Marilyn Monroe walking away in the film Some Like It Hot (1959), and since used to describe other sexy women. Jelly, not jell-o, had earlier described this love-potion motion in the popular song lyric “I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate, / She shakes like jelly on a plate . . .” |
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