| 词汇 | nice nelly |
| 词源 | nice Nelly. Someone so prudish he or she is ridiculous. American humorist Franklin Pierce Adams (he usually signed his work with his initials FPA) is responsible for this term. A prudish woman called Nice Nelly was a character in his news- paper column “The Conning Tower” and her name passed into the language from there. See also old lady in dubuque. |
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