pretty please
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7.6
- idiom
- Baby Talk
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- Could you pass the salt, pretty please?
- pretty please, with sugar
So if anyone is out there, please, pretty please with sugar on top.
- So if anyone is out there, please, pretty please with sugar on top.
- So pretty please do not fertilize or top dress.
- Also, if you've already used these dietary and lifestyle suggestions to improve your knee pain, pretty please put your story in the comments down below.
- So I'm begging you, pretty please find out if you have metabolic syndrome by using the diagnostic criteria I talked about earlier.
- Which reminds me, pretty please make sure you do your own diligence when a wholesaler, or anybody for that matter, sends you a property.
Examples
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- Pretty please, sir? - Maybe.
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If I give you the contact info, could you pretty please take over the paperwork, visas, plane tickets, to get us three from Seattle to the White Continent ?
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So if anyone is out there, please, pretty please with sugar on top.
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You wanna take a walk in the other room, pretty please?
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Please, pretty please with sugar on top.
Blog text (30) -
Please, pretty please take the time to take my reader survey.
Blog text (4) -
"Please, pretty please," she begged.
Fiction book (2000) -
Please, please, pretty please?
Blog text (10) -
Please, pretty please.
Blog text (30) -
Come on, Mr. Cook—pretty please?
Blog text (20)
Synonyms
How Pleading
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense is partially derivable because 'pretty' can function as an informal intensifier (as in 'pretty good') combined with 'please', so a learner could infer it is an intensified or more pleading form of 'please'. However, the childlike/imploring pragmatic nuance and fixed phrasal use are somewhat idiomatic and not fully predictable from the literal definitions, so it is only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Pretty please comes from people, often children, putting pretty before please to sound extra sweet and like they are begging. That's why it is used when someone wants something 'very politely' or is 'asking more strongly'.