pretty please

pretty please

An informal, more emphatic way of asking "please." Will you buy me a new toy, Mom, pretty please? Can we go to Disney World this summer? Pretty please, with sugar on top?
See also: please, pretty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Pretty please?

an emphasised form of please? Pretty please? I need an answer! Can I have my book back? Pretty please?
See also: pretty
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • Pretty please?
  • Pretty please with a cherry on top?
  • Pretty please with sugar on top?
  • Can I get by, please?
  • Could I get by, please?
  • out, please
  • Run that by again
  • show (oneself) out
  • as (something) as you please
  • as as you please
References in periodicals archive
We have changed our name from Bridgewater Blues to Rock School and we performed 'Pretty Please' by Pink in "Bridgewater's Got Talent.
A PLEA to Stockton council: Please, please, pretty please, let us have the fanciful, winged, steam engine, automaton at the centre of the planned seating area on the junction of Wellington Square / Dovecot Street / High Street, instead of the proposed fountain.
Chapman, if you feel you have to do something positive please: A) I will make good use of your paid up GUNS magazine subscription (pretty please); B) Use your energy to stop the blind culling among locals in many African countries, which includes the killing any animal in sight (gorillas, etc.) and selling it as "bush meat" to be eaten; C) I spent lime working in Soweto from 1984-86 and please believe me--horses and donkeys were a regular item on the local's menu and still are.
Breuer then compiled everything into a "book-object" called pretty please, could you dance for me.
I wonder the same about all the corporate chieftains who now routinely reach out and grab our privacy without so much as a "pretty please." They are carelessly stiff-arming the Constitution.
We all wait expectantly for the next series - hopefully minus the male exhibitionist bits and please, pretty please, Bruce Forsyth!
"Ahhh send one my way next, pretty please!" Joyce Welsh TOP TREND: The headteacher of the Newcastle Royal Grammar School believes that private schools should not have Ofsted inspections.
That means burping, farting and (pretty please) topless shots.
She wrote: "Seven days overdue and can't sleep a tweet would be lovely pretty please." And the Take That fan was stunned when Barlow replied: "bless u and good luck."
* LORRAINE Kelly OBE should be OMG, pretty please, help the world.
PS: Please, please, pretty please, no more of this tedious tosh from the usual media sooks about Walter - the man with no surname - working without a contract.
Say what you like - and we do - about Alex Salmond, at least his wife doesn't feel the need to go on Mumset or whatever to tell us what a wonderful man her husband is so pretty please, vote for him.
ESTELLE has a bit of back-up on her new track, Pretty Please, in the form of Cee-Lo from Gnarls Barkley.
Estelle - Pretty Please (love me) SUPERB old-school soul music pours out of every pore of London's lovely Estelle.
With any luck, they'll lift the block on those two soon, but pretty please, retain the mobile ban.