Mrs. Grundy

One who strongly values traditional propriety. In the Thomas Morton play Speed the Plough, Mrs. Grundy is a character known for her zeal for proper conduct. You can't wear jeans to this dinner party! Your grandmother will be there, and she is basically Mrs. Grundy!

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

praise from Sir Hubert
have no sense of shame
sense of shame
hold (one) at a respectful distance
plow into
plow into (someone or something)
reservation
be off the reservation
go off the reservation
off the reservation

References in periodicals archive

Both Miss Fenne and Seaton's aunt embody qualities of that destroyer De la Mare called "Mrs. Grundy."

For De la Mare, "Mrs. Grundy" meant something much worse than the term commonly conveys.

And yet With a hate one could never, no never forget As well as her manipulation of "righteousness," Mrs. Grundy "employs guile" against the "Timidest trespasser huntress of love," the child, who hoping for affection, was at first vulnerable but who soon realizes "What kind of creature is thine for foe" (A Choice of De la Mare's Verse, 134-35).

THE NUMINOUS IN WALTER DE LA MARE'S MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET

Mrs. Grundy the absolutist seems also to have been the unacknowledged begetter of Burton's relativism.

</pre> <p>As you slog through the gummy fens of Burton's verse, that ominous sound you hear in the background is Mrs. Grundy, not howling but snoring.

As for Burton, Kennedy is very astute on teasing out the frequent hypocrisies and prevarications he himself had recourse to in sexual matters; so much so, in fact, that after reading this rather intricate account of Burton and the forces that shaped him, I'm tempted, in good Victorian fashion, to say of Burton and poor beleaguered Mrs. Grundy: Reader, he married her.

Simious seductions

The discouraged Gissing wasted six entire weeks rewriting a novel already accepted, Mrs. Grundy's Enemies, in an attempt to soothe the publisher Bentley's moral disapproval of the narrative.

The Collected Letters of George Gissing

Failure to set off introductory subordinate clauses with commas: Mrs. Grundy's old students will remember that subordinate clauses contain a subject and a predicate but can't stand alone.

Punctuation problems

词组	Mrs. Grundy
释义	Mrs. Grundy Mrs. Grundy One who strongly values traditional propriety. In the Thomas Morton play Speed the Plough, Mrs. Grundy is a character known for her zeal for proper conduct. You can't wear jeans to this dinner party! Your grandmother will be there, and she is basically Mrs. Grundy! Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: praise from Sir Hubert have no sense of shame sense of shame hold (one) at a respectful distance plow into plow into (someone or something) reservation be off the reservation go off the reservation off the reservation References in periodicals archive Both Miss Fenne and Seaton's aunt embody qualities of that destroyer De la Mare called "Mrs. Grundy." For De la Mare, "Mrs. Grundy" meant something much worse than the term commonly conveys. And yet With a hate one could never, no never forget As well as her manipulation of "righteousness," Mrs. Grundy "employs guile" against the "Timidest trespasser huntress of love," the child, who hoping for affection, was at first vulnerable but who soon realizes "What kind of creature is thine for foe" (A Choice of De la Mare's Verse, 134-35). THE NUMINOUS IN WALTER DE LA MARE'S MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET Mrs. Grundy the absolutist seems also to have been the unacknowledged begetter of Burton's relativism. </pre> <p>As you slog through the gummy fens of Burton's verse, that ominous sound you hear in the background is Mrs. Grundy, not howling but snoring. As for Burton, Kennedy is very astute on teasing out the frequent hypocrisies and prevarications he himself had recourse to in sexual matters; so much so, in fact, that after reading this rather intricate account of Burton and the forces that shaped him, I'm tempted, in good Victorian fashion, to say of Burton and poor beleaguered Mrs. Grundy: Reader, he married her. Simious seductions The discouraged Gissing wasted six entire weeks rewriting a novel already accepted, Mrs. Grundy's Enemies, in an attempt to soothe the publisher Bentley's moral disapproval of the narrative. The Collected Letters of George Gissing Failure to set off introductory subordinate clauses with commas: Mrs. Grundy's old students will remember that subordinate clauses contain a subject and a predicate but can't stand alone. Punctuation problems
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