man about town

Synonyymisanakirja

man about town

Bay State, MA, Massachusetts, Old Colony.

Englannin sanakirja

man about town englanniksi

1. A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

2. 1902, w:W. Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, w:Mrs Craddock|Mrs Craddock, 1992 penguin Classics ed., ISBN 0140185941, page 71:

To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husbands virtues.''

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