I do en · X
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A traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.
They'd been pushing for me to get pregnant ever since I said "I do." And now that I was, do you think they were happy? No way.
2003, Joanne Kimes, Sanford A. Tisherman, Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do when Your Miracle Makes you Miserable, →ISBN, page 101:When she said ‘I do’ at the altar she was deemed to have made herself sexually available to her husband whenever he might wish.
2008, Mary Holmes, Gender and Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 75:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, do.
Translations (12)
es sí, acepto (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · de ja, ich will (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · hu akarom (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · fr oui, je le veux (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · it sì, lo voglio (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · fi tahdon (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · fr oui (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · nl ja (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · cmn 我願意 /我愿意 (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · hu igen (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · gu કબૂલ (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage) · sk áno, chcem (traditional phrase said upon acceptance of marriage)