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good and proper  (informal)
if someone does something good and proper, they do it completely and with a lot of force He warned me off good and proper after I kissed his girlfriend.
See also: and, good

good/right and proper

socially and morally acceptable There is a long-held assumption that motherhood is the right and proper path for a woman to take.
See also: and, good

prim and proper

someone who is prim and proper behaves in a very formal and correct way and is easily shocked by anything rude I can't quite imagine Ellen drinking pints of beer - she's very prim and proper.
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Football has always caused a stir in social properness since the English came up with hooliganism in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Hooliganism: the ugly rush by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Maybe because I was born in freedom and raised in a household of properness and had a good, solid education in many disciplines, it did not occur to me that I would ever be considered less valuable than anyone else or discriminated against simply because I was a displaced victim of war.
The Rings of My Tree by Aistars, Zinta / Reviewer's Bookwatch
The ingenious hidalgo, with his long, cadaverous frame, consistently outmatched by his own wits, was perfectly placed in this setting; only a land as dry in humor and backward in concept could sustain such an epic adventure; a parody of properness when there was little of such to be found in this poor, country region--a commentary on government set in a realm governed by the laws of the landscape and little more.
Castilla-La Mancha by Lipscomb, Kelly / Spain Adventure Guide
 
 
 
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