puh-leeze
Britishinterjection
Example Sentences
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Bad idea: Sending a joke to which the Empress says “Puh-leeze!”
From Washington Post
Unless your child is an avowed penny pincher who has never begged, “Will you buy me this? Please? Puh-leeze?” leave the kids at home.
From Seattle Times
Unless your child is an avowed penny pincher who has never begged, “Will you buy me this? Please? Puh-leeze?” leave the kids at home, Erickson says.
From Washington Post
She says, “Well? Can you open it? Puh-leeze?”
From Literature
“Harry would get up and sing along with the music playing on the radio,” she wrote, “and some of us would tease him, ‘Harry, puh-leeze!
From Washington Post
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