Meanings
- datedan exclamation of surprise
Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.
1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 851 more example
Bill slouched up to the tent and entered. When he beheld the magnificent proportions of Robert he said but little - 'Strike me pink!' were the only words the children could afterwards remember - but he produced fifteen shillings, mainly in sixpences and coppers, and handed it to Robert.
1902, Edith Nesbit, chapter 8, in Five Children and It
Synonyms & antonyms
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