mixed company
Varied social group
Mixed company refers to a social group containing people of different types—traditionally men and women together, but also groups mixing ages, backgrounds, or sensibilities.
The phrase appears most often in warnings about appropriate behavior: Watch your language in mixed company.
The implication is that certain topics or words acceptable among one's own kind become inappropriate when others are present.
- womenfolkFemale family members collectively
- womankindFemales as a group
- family gatheringRelatives meeting socially
- dinner partyHosted meal with guests
- blushFacial reddening from emotion
raised eyebrows · awkward silence · change the subject · laughter · appropriateness · discretion · tact · jokes · giggle · wedding party · banter · man and wife · politeness · keep it clean · diversity · off-color · off limits · social norms
mixed companyclose friends
Deeply bonded companions
inner circle · private company · safe space · closed circle · in confidence
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