in the pink
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in the pink
- (informal) Ellipsis of in the pink of health.
- 2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4:
- The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity […]
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- (informal) Nude, naked.
- 1999, Nicholas Royle, Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing:
- I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.
- 2011 September 15, Donald T. Williams, The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 115:
- [I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]
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Related terms
- two in the pink, one in the stink