pearl-clutching

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,derogatory)Prim,prudish, oreasilyoffended.2007, Amanda Marcotte,It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments, Seal Press,→ISBN,page141:When John Kerry “outed” Mary Cheney in a 2004 presidential debate, it was already well known that Mary Cheney was a lesbian. You can't out the already out, no matter whatpearl-clutchingpundits would have you believe.2010, April Winchell,Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF, Villard Books,→ISBN,page131:Even the biggest doe-eyed,pearl-clutchingEtsy muffin has to find some way to make it okay to be negative, because we have no choice.2013, Jeff Smith, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, editors,The Best American Comics 2013, Houghton Mifflin,→ISBN,page362:There's something truly irresistible about thepearl-clutchingcartoons that came out during the time people thought women on bicycles were single-handedly going to bring society to ruin.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:pearl-clutching.

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