| 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. 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') UK, 1960 |
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