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What is the meaning of ‘fashionably late’?
(Dilip Saxena, Kanpur)
When you arrive at a party ‘fashionably late’, what you are doing is making an appearance a few minutes after the scheduled time. You don’t turn up an hour or two after the event has begun, you are late only by a few minutes. This is your way of telling others that you are a busy or popular person. Most actors and politicians are fashionably late for events in order to create the impression that they were busy elsewhere.
As expected, the children arrived fashionably late for the party.
S. UPENDRAN
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