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Meaning: (idiomatic,derogatory)Aprim,prudish, oreasilyoffendedperson.2017January 16, Emily Nussbaum, “How Jokes Won the 2016 Election”, inThe New Yorker[1], retrieved24 August 2021:It’s a dynamic that goes back to the rude, rule-breaking Groucho Marx—destroyer of élites!—and Margaret Dumont, pop culture’s primalpearl-clutcher.2019March 6, Kate Taylor, “How the Meaning of a String of Pearls Upstaged a Gun Control Debate”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:The intended message of the pearls wasn’t entirely clear, though one interpretation was that the lawmakers were trying to paint members of the group as “pearl clutchers” — suggesting that they were being overly sensitive.2020April 24, Romesh Ranganathan, “I'm finally watching Game of Thrones and it's made me a total pearl-clutcher”, inThe Guardian[3]:It’s my reaction to the violence, however, that I have found most surprising. I have gone from somebody who doesn’t mind any level of gore to apearl-clutcherof the highest order.2020June 9, Keza MacDonald, “The Sims gets a climate-friendly makeover in Eco Lifestyle”, inThe Guardian[4]:Eco Lifestyle adds features that The Sims’ enormous Gen Z audience had long been asking for, such as septum piercings and boho fashions that would look great down the allotment – and loads that surely nobody was asking for, including candle-making and the attractive prospect of having sex in dumpsters, thus fulfilling every olderpearl-clutcher’s worst imaginings about the filthy eco-conscious young.
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