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  • 111enjoy — [14] Originally, enjoy was used intransitively in English, rather as in the modern American Yiddish influenced injunction ‘Enjoy!’: ‘Yet he never enjoyed after, but in conclusion pitifully wasted his painful life’, Robert Laneham 1549. However,… …

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  • 112enjoy oneself — {v. phr.} To have a good time; be happy; feel pleasure. * /Mary enjoyed herself at the party./ * / Enjoy yourselves, children, Mother urged the guests at our party./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 113enjoy oneself — {v. phr.} To have a good time; be happy; feel pleasure. * /Mary enjoyed herself at the party./ * / Enjoy yourselves, children, Mother urged the guests at our party./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 114enjoy — verb Etymology: Middle English enjoien, from Anglo French enjoir, enjoier to gladden, enjoy, from en + joie joy Date: 15th century intransitive verb to have a good time transitive verb 1. to have for one s use, benefit, or lot ; experience <&#8230; …

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  • 115enjoy — enjoyer, n. enjoyingly, adv. /en joy /, v.t. 1. to experience with joy; take pleasure in: He enjoys Chinese food. 2. to have and use with satisfaction; have the benefit of: He enjoys an excellent income from his trust funds. 3. to find or&#8230; …

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  • 116enjoy\ oneself — v. phr. To have a good time; be happy; feel pleasure. Mary enjoyed herself at the party. Enjoy yourselves, children, Mother urged the guests at our party …

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  • 117enjoy a drink —    to be a drunkard    You may also be said to enjoy a cup, drop, glass, nip, the bottle, etc …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 118enjoy — verb 1) he enjoys playing the piano Syn: like, love, be fond of, be entertained by, take pleasure in, be keen on, delight in, appreciate, relish, revel in, adore, lap up, savor, luxuriate in, bask in; informal get a kick out of, get a thrill out&#8230; …

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  • 119enjoy oneself — she travels just to enjoy herself Syn: have fun, have a good time, have the time of one s life; make merry, celebrate, revel, disport; informal party, love life, have a ball, have a whale of a time, whoop it up, let one s hair down …

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  • 120enjoy — verb 1) he enjoys playing the piano Syn: like, be fond of, take pleasure in, be keen on, delight in, relish, revel in, adore, lap up, savour, luxuriate in, bask in; informal get a thrill out of 2) she had always enjoyed good health …

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