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fur coat and no knickers
applied to someone whose surface rectitude masks a less than respectable morality UK- — Mike Harding, Fur Coat and No Knickers, 1980
- Forum [a “swingers” club] members, it said, tended to be above average in status (I think the expression is “all fur coat and no knickers”) and, as a consequence, tried to avoid scandal. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 131, 1995
- Kettners really is all fur coat and no knickers. It has the aspect of the grandest of establishments (a lustre only emphasised by its champagne bar) yet the menu of a pizzeria. — Jay Rayner, The Observer, 28 July 2002
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