Citations:Pollyanning

English citations of Pollyanning

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verb

1. • 1919, Everybody's magazine, Volume 40, page 39

     Helen Hayes, who is just as nice as she looks in Barrie's "Dear Brutus," and much prettier, was telling me gleefully about the little girl who was brought hack stage to sec her when she 'was Pollyanning on the Coast a year ago.

noun

1. • 1972, David Herbert Lawrence, John Thomas and Lady Jane

     'I've done my own Polly-anning long enough for that.' 'Don't you mind doing your own housework?'

   • 2001, Michael S. Heise, The Facade, page 38

     How do you expect me to relate to your Pollyanning your way through life?