Meaning of baddy two-shoes | Babel Free

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“BADDY TWO-SHOES. Woman Commits Murder and Suicide for a Trivial Cause. […] Nelson had bought his wife a pair of shoes and lost them on the way home while under the influence of liquor. His wife sent him back to hunt for them and upon his return unsuccessful she killed him in her rage.”

“It’s baddy two-shoes / A BURGLAR at Bacup Shoe Company, Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, stole £12. The firm’s other facory at Baldwin Street Industrial Estate, Stacksteads, was also entered by an intruder but nothing was stolen.”

“With Graham, whose presence offers the pressure of sex without any threat of follow-through, [Steven] Soderbergh may have concocted a new-style modern sex symbol. But [Laura] San Giacomo’s Miss Baddy Two-Shoes is triumphantly old style; she’s all follow-through, and the movie desperately needs her sass and her cynic’s sanity. She’s the “sex” in the movie that makes you forget the “lies” and the “videotape.” There’s a lesson in all this: if you’re going to create a morality play, be on guard—low-down beats highfalutin every time.”

“So, basically, a passable show, with Lily [Walsh] doing the best work and everyone else trying to cope with how lame the current crop of super-villains really is. A Miss Annie Dutton Lewis, or even a Dinah Marler Thorpe, are not to be found among these fake baddy two-shoes.”

“hmmmmm, I'm lookin' at that last statement: "I can do whatever I want to".... the rebel yell. You _can_ do whatever you want to Barb, but I have a feeling you _do_not_want_ to smoke. "and if I want to smoke, then pffttt." Sure, but you _do_not_want_ to smoke. Staying smoke-free is great for the goody two-shoes, the baddy two-shoes, the saint, the sinner, the.... you get the idea.”

“‘Let’s get the boy out!’ cried a voice, the voice of Mr Punch, of all people. Surely his part was to play the ringleader, the anti-hero, not the have-a-go hero. It appeared the puppets were divided, half good half bad, like all children were, or for the most part. Well, all apart from Alfie Jolly; he was a goody two-shoes according to his twin brother, Buster, who was a baddy two-shoes, a buster gut anti-hero.”

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