When using polysemantic words, there is a possibility of their incorrect or inaccurate interpretation. To avoid mistakes, it is worth expanding your vocabulary and studying the intricacies of use. In this article, we will look at common meanings of the word "to please".
To please is to please
When it comes to actions that are pleasant or useful to one person and performed by another, it can be said with confidence that the second one pleased or pleases the first. It can be a favor, something done or done in a timely manner, unexpectedly on time, to the place (pleased with an acquaintance, please with gifts).
It was in those distant times when girls were sent to educational institutions only to learn how to cook, please their husband and manage the household.
At the same time, many serious literary critics considered his work secondary, spoke of the desire to please the momentary interests of the authorities.
If a person deliberatelypurposefully seeks someone's favor, doing pleasant deeds, you can also say that he is currying or pleasing.
Figuratively, "please" is close to "make friends". Means, having planned something good, get the opposite result.
Got where I didn't want to
Another lexical meaning of the word to please is to get to a place by chance or intention. The shade of the word rather indicates being somewhere against your will or due to circumstances (get into prison, fall into the clutches of the enemy).
The question of how you got here implies that the person was not expected to be seen at this time in this place, that his presence is contrary to logical reasoning or the natural course of events.
The word to please in the meaning of hit is also used when some object hit an unwanted target. Examples of its use in this perspective:
- No matter how much he aimed, all his arrows hit "milk".
- It was especially unpleasant when Lena hit me in the face with a snowball.
- Usually well-aimed, the peddler was distracted by a flying bird, and instead of a porch, the newspaper landed in a bucket of rainwater.
Despite the fact that the verb "to please" is rarely used in everyday speech, the word is not obsolete. Similar words in the lexical arsenal give the impressionwell-read and educated.
