angel-drawers

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Noun

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angel-drawers (plural angel-drawers)

  1. (humorous) Affectionate term of address.
    • 1969, "It's the Arts" (TV comedy sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 1)
      HOST: Can I call you "sugar plum"?
      ROSS: No.
      HOST: "Pussycat"?
      ROSS: No!
      HOST: "Angel drawers"?
    • 2000, Barbara Marchant, A Young Actor's Scene Book: A Training Tool, page 29:
      RICKY: Don't you worry about my drinking, angel-drawers. I've drunk more beer than you ever saw.
    • 2012, Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature, page 372:
      We're on the move, Angel-drawers. Every boring mile brings me closer to you.

References

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  • Tony Thorne (2014) “angel-drawers”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury