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词组 not tonight, Josephine!
释义 not tonight, Josephine!

a catchphrase used by a man to defer his sexual duties to a wife or lover; hence, applied to any postponement UK, 1960
Originally a quotation, apocryphally attributed to Napoleon dashing his mistress’s hopes. In its current sexual context there is obviously a reliance on jocularity of delivery to deflect any serious subtext. Familiar from a music hall poem: “I’ll tell you in a phrase, my sweet, exactly what I mean: / . . . Not tonight, Josephine” (Colin Curzon, “Not Tonight, Josephine”).
  • [Gordon] Brown, too, believes that one day we will be in the euro-zone. He is a “not tonight, Josephine” man, a chancellor with a headache, not a “never” man. — New Statesman, 12 November 2001
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