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simon pure
Absolutely genuine, quite authentic, as in That laboratory test was simon pure; none of the specimens was adulterated. This expression comes from the name of a character in a play, Susannah Centilivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who is the victim of an impersonation but turns up in the end and proves that he is "the real Simon Pure."
Simon Legree
(ˈsɑɪmən ləˈgri) n. a very hard taskmaster; a hard boss. (From the name of the slave driver in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.) Ask Simon Legree if I will be able to stop work and go home for breakfast now.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Jowita | | yaw-VEE-tah | Polish |
Pandora | | [pæn'dɔ:rə] | |
Ferguson | | ['fɜ:gəsn] | |
Giosetta | | jo-ZET-tah | Italian |
Abidan | | ə-BIE-dən (English), AB-i-dan (English) | Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |
Marylu | | mer-ee-LOO, mar-ee-LOO | English (Rare) |