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charming!
used for expressing disapproval UK
An ironic variation of the conventional sense, signalled with heavy emphasis on the first syllable.- PRINCE’S WIFE: You’ve wronged me for the last time. It is my misfortune that I still love you but no other woman is going to have you. I have this bomb. We shall die together. HANCOCK: Ooh charming. Madam, I’m not your husband, I’m an actor over ‘ere doing “The Student Prince.” — Galton and Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, 18 January 1956
- “Oh, bleeding charmin,” Audrey says, her hand over the receiver, “just bleeding charming.” — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 9, 1974
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