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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
BEST be on one's best behaviour behave as well as possible The children were
on their best behaviour at the party. one's best bet action most likely to bring
success Your best bet would be to back that brown stallion. one's best bib and
tucker ...
Be on one's best behaviour Take care to behave well. The child surprised even
her parents when she put on her best behaviour at the party. Be on one's beam
ends Be at the end of one's financial resources; Destitute His extravagant ways ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
But, even so, it was a relief that the social pressure to be on one's best behaviour
had if not entirely vanished then, at any rate, been temporarily relaxed, and he
was accordingly free to be his usual informal self. One's best behaviour? No, that
...
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The Twilight Mystique: Critical Essays
on the Novels and Films
According to Warner, the abstinence movement grew out of the evangelists' “
need to be on one's best behaviour, to cast aside any acquaintances and
diversions that threatened to derail the believer's unblinking focus on God.”44
The only way ...
Amy M. Clarke, Marijane Osborn, Donald E. Palumbo, 2010
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Alan Bennett: A Critical Introduction
Despite her complaint that “whenever I meet anybody they're always on their best
behaviour. And when one is on one's best behaviour one isn't always at one's
best” (335), Bennett presents HMQ both at her best and on her best behavior.
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Plato: The Man and His Work
The boy is still clearly thinking of the form in which sophrosyne would be most
familiar to a well—bred boy—the sense of being “ on one's best behaviour ” in the
presence of one's parents, one's elders, and in general of those to whom respect
...
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Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old ...
And when one is on one's best behaviour one isn't always at one's best. I don't
understand it. They all have different jobs, there ought to be heaps to talk about,
yet I'm always having to crank it up. Blunt The truth is, Ma'am, one doesn't have ...
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naughty boy was on his best behaviour at the party last night. Bf B&Sf} beholder
beauty is in the eye of the beholder H BEAUTY being in being #ft ; fiSif M ...
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Embodied Communities: Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Being on one's best behaviour depends on where one is and with whom. For
example, just as the pendhapa is the public part of a traditional house, so
pendhapa behaviour is 'front stage' public behaviour. Here of all places, it is most
...
Felicia Hughes-Freeland, 2008
To get ahead, one must not only be prepared to wait but must also be prepared to
be on one's best behaviour. As long as a work unit member makes no really
serious mistakes, then there is little chance of them dropping in rank. At least in
this ...
Michael Robert Dutton, 1998
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Stop behaving badly, boorish lawyers told
Remaining on one's best behaviour, though, can be challenging in an adversarial justice system that pits lawyers against one another and ... «Toronto Star, 十一月 09»
