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peel me a grape

peel me a grape phrase: a request to be pampered or to have one's whims indulged.

Phrase

peel me a grape

  1. A request to be pampered or to have one's whims indulged.
    • His early, brilliant "Peel Me a Grape," which has long been one of Blossom Dearie's anthems, laughs at social ennui in the seventies and eighties in the way that Cole Porter laughed at it in the thirties: Peel me a grape, crush me some ice, Skin me a peach, save the fuzz for my pillow, Start me a...2006, Whitney Balliett -, American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song, →ISBN, page 242
    • Can't you hear Adam say to her, “Peel me a grape, Lilith.” And her response: “Peel it yourself! And while you are at it, where's dinner?”2009, Ronald B. Allen, Beverly Allen, Liberated Traditionalism: Men and Women in Balance, →ISBN, page 91

Origin of peel me a grape

First recorded use by Mae West in the film I'm no Angel (1933): "Beulah, (yes ma'am) peel me a grape."

Questions about peel me a grape

What does peel me a grape mean?
Peel me a grape means a request to be pampered or to have one's whims indulged.
What part of speech is peel me a grape?
Peel me a grape is a phrase.

Words near peel me a grape in the dictionary

  1. peekytoes
  2. peel
  3. peel away
  4. peel back the onion
  5. Peel en Maas
  6. peel me a grape
  7. peel off
  8. peel out
  9. Peel Region
  10. peel rubber
  11. peel strength

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