What is Pearl Clutcher?
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An uptight person, usually but not always female, usually but not always of conservative mores, who reacts with shock, feigned or otherwise, at other people's violations of decorum, propriety, morality, and so forth.
Someone got up at the PTA meeting and suggested the school hand out condoms to teenagers. The pearl clutchers in the audience nearly went into cardiac arrest.
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A disorder in which one loses the ability to hear what anyone else has to say - because their own self important inner monologue drowns..