List of "Phrases, Terms, Expressions" for Fayne
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List of "Phrases, Terms, Expressions" for Fayne
Description
This is a list of Victorian phrases/expressions which Ann-Marie MacDonald has compiled.
Certain phases are in red and include:
- fiddle-faddle doesn't maddle (mine)
- you can bet your boots
- made a conquest
- lost her health to a life of lazy ease
- passed the meridean of life (Mae re Miss Gourley)
sylvan huntress (Mae, portrait)
- only conceive!
- quite boulversée
- picturesque disorder
- apple pie order
- spick-and-span
- slap-dash
- the rank of fashion
- to "cut" someone
- Yankee know-how
- the continued absence of the stork (Mae to Taffy)
- left her inconsolable
- (Mae's flight)
- put to desparate expedients
- sailing moon
- scudding clouds
- sapphire sky
- across the face of the full moon
Certain phases are in red and include:
- fiddle-faddle doesn't maddle (mine)
- you can bet your boots
- made a conquest
- lost her health to a life of lazy ease
- passed the meridean of life (Mae re Miss Gourley)
sylvan huntress (Mae, portrait)
- only conceive!
- quite boulversée
- picturesque disorder
- apple pie order
- spick-and-span
- slap-dash
- the rank of fashion
- to "cut" someone
- Yankee know-how
- the continued absence of the stork (Mae to Taffy)
- left her inconsolable
- (Mae's flight)
- put to desparate expedients
- sailing moon
- scudding clouds
- sapphire sky
- across the face of the full moon
Creator
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subject
Fayne
Source
From Ann-Marie MacDonald's personal archive.
