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==English== |
==English== |
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===Adjective=== |
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{{en-adj|pos=[[in]] [[the]] [[pink]]}} |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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# {{idiomatic}} In very good [[health]]. |
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* {{audio|en|en-au-in the pink.ogg|Audio ( |
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===Prepositional phrase=== |
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{{en-PP}} |
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# {{lb|en|informal}} {{ellipsis of|en|in the pink of health}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|date=2002-10-17|author=Lynn Peril|title=Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393349931|page=4 |
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|text=The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “'''in the pink'''” with postwar prosperity{{nb...}}}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Nicholas Royle|title=Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing |
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|text=I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier '''IN THE PINK''' - Laurie Graham.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|date=2011-09-15|author=Donald T. Williams|title=The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781463411893|page=115 |
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|text=[I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / '''In the pink''' / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years {{nb...}}}} |
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====Related terms==== |
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* {{l|en|two in the pink, one in the stink}} |
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Revision as of 01:01, 20 February 2023
English
Pronunciation
Audio ( AU ):(file)
Prepositional phrase
- (informal) Ellipsis of in the pink of health.
- 2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4:
- The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity […]
- (informal) Nude, naked.
- 1999, Nicholas Royle, Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing:
- I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.
- 2011 September 15, Donald T. Williams, The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 115:
- [I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]