fashionably late

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Arrivingbehind timeto aneventwhich does not normally require one to bepunctual.1874,May Agnes Fleming, chapter V, inA Terrible Secret‎[1]:Three hours later—fashionably late, of course—the Stuart party swept in state into their box.1913,Francis Lynde, chapter X, inThe Honorable Senator Sage-Brush‎[2]:Ex-Senator Blount's party of three wasfashionably lateat the function in Mesa Circle, but in the crush filling the spacious drawing-rooms the hostess and her long line of receiving assistants were still on duty.1917,O. Douglas[pseudonym; Anna Masterton Buchan], chapter II, inThe Setons‎[3]:The sofa which she had counted on to hold four looked crowded with three[…]and when the Simpsons came,fashionably late(having only just finished dinner), they had to content themselves with the end of a holland-covered form hired from the baker.1967, “Twentieth Century Fox”, inThe Doors, performed by The Doors:Well, she's fashionably lean / And she'sfashionably late/ She'll never rank a scene / She'll never break a date

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