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Nimini Pimini
Affected simplicity. Lady Emily, in the Heiress, tells Miss
Alscrip the way to acquire the paphian Mimp is to stand before a glass
and keep pronouncing nimini pimini. “The lips cannot fail to take the
right plie.” (General Burgoyne, iii. 2.)
This conceit has been borrowed by Charles Dickens in his Little
Dorrit, where Mrs. General tells Amy Dorrit-
“Papa gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes,
poultry, prunes, and prism. You will find it serviceable if
you say to yourself on entering a room, Papa, potatoes, poultry,
prunes, and prism, prunes and prism.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Nimini Pimini from Infoplease:
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