Meaning of mixed company | Babel Free

Definitions

Men and women, both present at a gathering.

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Examples

“"Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . ." "Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company."”

“"Took 'er home all right, did yuh?" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company.”

“Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.”

“"Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company."”

“Only a Cancer female can describe in mixed company a night spent with a lover and a double-sided dildo without a sniff of shame or irony.”

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