When using polysemous words, there is a possibility of their incorrect or inaccurate interpretation. To avoid mistakes, it is worth expanding the vocabulary and studying the intricacies of use. In this article, we consider the common meanings of the word "please."
To please is to please
When it comes to actions that are pleasant or useful to one person and performed by another, it is safe to say that the second pleased or pleased the first. It can be a favor, something done or done in a timely manner, unexpectedly on time, to the place (pleased with the acquaintance, to please with gifts).
This was in those distant times when girls were sent to educational institutions only so that they could learn how to cook, please their husband, and do housework.
At the same time, many serious literary scholars considered his work secondary, talked about the desire to cater to the immediate interests of the authorities.
If a person intentionally, purposefully seeks someone's favor, doing pleasant things, you can also say that he is being served or pleasing.
In a figurative sense, "please" is close to "make friends." It means, having planned something good, to get the opposite result.
Pleased where I didn’t want
Another lexical meaning of the word pleasing is to get to any place randomly or intentionally. The hue of the word indicates rather being somewhere against the will or due to circumstances (to go to prison, to fall into the clutches of the enemy).
The question of how you got here implies that the person was not expected to see at this time in this place, that his presence is contrary to the logical arguments or the natural course of events.
The word pleasing in the meaning of hit also applies when an object hits an unwanted target. Examples of its use in this perspective:
- No matter how much he aims, all his arrows catered for "milk."
- It was especially unpleasant when Lena hit me in the face with a snowball.
- Usually a well-aimed, 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 “please” is used rarely in everyday speech, this word cannot be called obsolete. Similar words in the lexical arsenal give the impression of being well-read and educated.