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man about town
noun
- a socially active, sophisticated man who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.; playboy; boulevardier.
man about town
noun
- a fashionable sophisticate, esp one in a big city
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Word History and Origins
Origin of man about town1
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Idioms and Phrases
A man who frequently attends fashionable social functions, as in Fred is quite the man about town these days . This expression, first recorded in 1734, uses town in the sense of “a sophisticated place” as opposed to rural settings.Discover More
Example Sentences
“The Wohls really helped him a lot once Joselyn started dating him,” says a man-about-town who knows Parker well.
He was a man-about-town, living, to all appearance, by his wits.
He scorned Joseph; and yet his desire, as a man-about-town, to keep Joseph's esteem, was in no way diminished!
Its proprietor was a jovial man-about-town, rather prone than averse to the society of police captains.
George, a man-about-town, would have stared at being called provincial, but a man cannot stare away his nature.
Evans was admirably suited with the rle of a dashing young man-about-town.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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