to be in the family way
- Fuente de la expresión
- DUE
- Estructura completa
- (Someone) to be in the family way
- Variantes
- to be in a family way
- Contexto
- Hardly a soul in Lincoln County believed any man could get near enough to kiss Judge Penelope Parker—let alone get intimate! But someone had gotten a heck of a lot closer—because Penny Parker was pregnant!
Yep, Penny was in the family way—and Sheriff Ethan Hamilton was the proud papa-to-be. The long, lean lawman and the straitlaced judge had come together one desperate, dangerous night…and made a baby.
- Fuente del contexto
- Apple Books
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- Stella Bagwell
- Título de la fuente
- Penny Parker's Pregnant!
- Año
- 2011
- Web
- https://books.apple.com/us/book/penny-parkers-pregnant/id451911088
- Observaciones
- It is a more proper and old way of saying a woman is expecting a child without saying the word pregnant.
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente