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What (who) is SALLY - definition
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Sally (film); Sally (disambiguation); Sallies; Sally's; Sally (song); Sally (TV series); User:Jeremiahbles/sandbox; Draft:Sally - Song; Sally - Song; SALLY
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(sallies, sallying, sallied)
1.
Sallies are clever and amusing remarks. (LITERARY)
He had thus far succeeded in fending off my conversational sallies.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone sallies forth or sallies somewhere, they go out into a rather difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant situation in a brave or confident way. (LITERARY)
...worrying about her when she sallies forth on her first date...
Tamara would sally out on bitterly cold nights.
VERB: V forth, V prep/adv
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Sally is also a noun.
...their first sallies outside the student world.
N-COUNT
Sally
·v A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
II. Sally ·v An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
III. Sally ·v A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
IV. Sally ·v Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
V. Sally ·vi To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
VI. Sally ·v A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
Examples of use of SALLY
1. Its refrain, "ride Sally ride", would later be reincarnated in Wilson Pickett‘s Mustang Sally.
2. Sally Anne was the ‘perfect angel‘, her mother said Sally Anne Bowman had everything to live for.
3. It then moves back to Sally Anne getting out of Lewis‘s car in Blenheim Crescent and Sally Anne being attacked.
4. Street favourite Sally Lindsay is leaving Coronation Street favourite Sally Lindsay – Rovers barmaid Shelley Unwin – is quitting the soap.
5. Sally Jacobsen AP Deputy Managing Editor/Projects