family jewels

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plural nounSlang.
  1. the male genitals.

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How to use family jewels in a sentence

  • She may catch you; she shan't lay hold of our family jewels: they stand for the honour of our name and blood.'

  • She had no right to retain the family jewels; she had the most perfect of established rights to refuse doing an ignominious thing.

  • family jewels were invariably the last resort of declining fortunes unwilling to abandon cherished appearances.

    The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
  • Mrs. Engledew, by the death of a relative, had just come into possession of some old family jewels—chiefly diamonds.

    The Herapath Property | J. S. Fletcher
  • She shall, of course, have all the family jewels immediately, and the dining-room furniture too.