bit of homework
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Noun
bit of homework (plural bits of homework)
- (British, slang) An attractive woman.
- Synonym: piece of homework
- 1953, Eric Ambler, The Schirmer Inheritance, Alfred A. Knopf, page 177:
- "And that little bit of homework you've got with you?" / "Miss Kolin, you mean? She's an interpreter."
- 1996, Barbara Hardy, London Lovers, Peter Owen Publishers, →ISBN, page 85:
- The last time I made love was quick and casual, with a short dark handsome theological student called Harry Lloyd, who reminded me a bit of my glamorous Uncle Bert, prize-winning dancer and lady-fancier who referred to attractive women as nice bits of homework.
References
- “bit of homework”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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