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What does prim and proper mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) prudish, straight-laced
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At one point she thought she would laugh aloud at how prim and proper they both sounded, when just below the surface, tension seethed.
Thus is the tone set early on, and it's decidedly at odds with our notions today of the prim and proper Victorians.
There not very far from them sat the Princess, sitting very prim and proper, watching the fish play in the fountain pool.
There was no prim and proper lady to be seen near the Great Hall, for they had no great mind to walk outside whilst it was raining.
She is from the 1960's, but extremely prim and proper, a very quiet, moral woman.
After Henry croaked, Katherine dropped the prim and proper act and married Thomas Seymour.

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