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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Pretty Persuasion?

Can someone give me the meaning of the phrase, "pretty persuasion"?
  

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Can you provide some context? Where did you hear or read it?
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I know the term "friendly persuasion" (non-violent, not forceful), which is also the name of an Oscar-winning movie from the 50's.
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From what I can understand after consulting the internet myself, the name of the R.E.M. song "Pretty persuasion" comes from an idiom in English in which "persuasion" means "to generally have that kind of characteristic". So, to have a "pretty persuasion" is something like "to have an attractive (pretty, enticing, enjoyable) type of flair about oneself". Like being cute in some sort of unexplic

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