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单词 Mrs Grundy
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Mrs Grundy

noun
(pl. Mrs Grundys)
a person with very conventional standards of propriety
格伦迪太太(指拘泥于世俗常规的人)。
词源
early 19th cent.: a person repeatedly mentioned in T. Morton's comedy Speed the Plough (1798), often in the phrase 'What will Mrs Grundy say?', which became a popular catchphrase.
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