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A sign in The Old Portland Tonsorial Parlor, located in Oregon on the Left Coast, reads: IT PAYS TO LOOK WELL." One may obtain both a haircut and a shoeshine at this establishment but not lessons in looking, to the best of my knowledge.
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Those who break into safes shouldn't feel badly. In fact, don't they file off the skin on the ends of their fingers to feel better?
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re: In fact, don't they file off the skin on the ends of their fingers to feel better?
Oh, WW, you are so good, so pure, so innocent..
i thought Mav was addressing the needs of the make out artists(to be) who haven't yet become as international as Mav..
you know, international guys(from my youth) the kind that had Rom'n hands, and russin fingers..
Lacking facility, they might feel badly.. (and grope your arm (or worse yet, your armpit) when attempting to grope more erotic parts!)
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He tried to fix that thought in case it came in useful, but some mental processes were fully occupied with the growing realization of how well some women could look in a severely plain dress.
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
I'm sure that idioms such as this go unobserved all the time; then someone brings them up someplace like this and et viola.
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and et viola
Can't fool me. She's your aunt.
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In reply to:
...with the growing realization of how well some women could look in a severely plain dress.
Not anything to do with 'well,' but an opening passage from Middlemarch that I was reminded of:
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
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not lessons in looking
Are you sure? You best look well ifn you're gonna be sure the haircut was what you wanted before you pay for it.
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Anna, couldn't agree more!
But in (British) English it is perfectly acceptable and normal (at least for hypochondriacs) to feel poorly
BTW I wouldn't use but would understand the original 'look well'.
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I believe it's just a case of usage that's fallen out of favor. - not among more senior citizens: If "good looking" is a thing of the past, you can at least do something to look well  .
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Thank you!
My high school teacher physically illustrated what it meant to "feel badly." And of course, my boss and the COO of our company (who has his masters in English from Harvard!) continue to "feel badly" about things nearly every day.
I've felt so silly, sticking to my grounds of "feel bad" -- and now I see I'm not alone.
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