if it you please
if it you please phrase: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if, it, you, please. Also the archaic form of if you please.
Phrase
if it you please
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if, it, you, please.
- The Emperour ſaid foꝛ his ſaik that you bought, / Withouttin feir ſhew me your minde and thought / Ye ſhall me finde to you truſt and conſtant, / Vnto your health there is nocht ye ſhall want, / Therefoꝛe ſhew fooꝛth your minde if it you pleaſe, / What ye ſhall ſay nothing ſhall me diſeaſe.1578, Iohn Roland, transl., The Seuen Sages, Translated Out of Prose into Scottish Meter […], Edinburgh: […] Andro Hart, published 1620, →OCLC, signature Z2, verso
- Good-man, quoth ſhe, if it you pleaſe, / That I muſt travel to the Pleugh, / And you to dwell at Hame at Eaſe, / Perhaps you may get Toil enough.[1770?], The Goodman of Auchtermuchty; or, The Wife Turned Good-man. […], →OCLC, page [1]
Also used as
if it you please is also the archaic form of if you please.
Questions about if it you please
- What does if it you please mean?
- If it you please means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if, it, you, please.
- What part of speech is if it you please?
- If it you please is a phrase.
Words near if it you please in the dictionary
- if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck
- if it looks, swims, walks and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck
- if it wasn't
- if it were not for
- if it works, it works
- if it you please
- if it's all the same
- if it's not one thing it's another
- if it's the last thing I do
- if it's yellow let it mellow
- if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down
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