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What does prim and proper mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) prudish, straight-laced
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Looking prim and proper, and every inch a little lady, Miss Destiny looked demurely down at her hands.
There not very far from them sat the Princess, sitting very prim and proper, watching the fish play in the fountain pool.
It was true Lily was extraordinarily prim and proper when she started going to Alex's school.
Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose.
After Henry croaked, Katherine dropped the prim and proper act and married Thomas Seymour.
She is from the 1960's, but extremely prim and proper, a very quiet, moral woman.

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