prunes and prisms
21nice-nellyism — n primness, excessive propriety, prissiness, prudery, prudishness, priggishness, prig gery, overniceness, Inf. goodiness; pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, equivocation, (esp. in Victorian England) prunes and prisms; preciosity, preciousness,… …
22The Vicar of Bray (opera) — The Vicar of Bray is a comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Sydney Grundy which opened at the Globe Theatre, in London, on July 22 1882, for a run of only 69 performances. The public was not amused at a clergyman s being made the… …
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