lady's man

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The running meta-gag at the heart of "Animal House" is that, although the members of Delta house are all so different — the lady’s man Otter, the failed romantic Boone, the politician Hoover, the human black hole Bluto Blutarsky — they are all united by a single philosophy that the basic purpose of human life is to indulge as frequently and as single-mindedly as possible in the most immediate gratification presently available.

From Salon

“Bad Rabbi” is a succession of outlandish misadventures, a wild panorama populated by an astonishing array of characters: Blimp Levy, the 650-pound wrestler and lady’s man; Urke Nachlnik, the yeshiva student turned criminal kingpin turned Yiddish playwright; Naftali Herz Imber, the hard-drinking professional psychic who, among other things, wrote the words to the Zionist anthem “Hatikvah.”

From New York Times

Both bands are ready to call out immaturity — “Time to be a lady’s man/Time to knock out Peter Pan,” Creevy sings casually on “Lucid Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times

“He wasn’t a lady’s man,” she recalled.

From Washington Times

Hughie was the hotel’s night watchman for years, and he was a witness to Erie’s days of glory as a gambler and a lady’s man — or at least to Erie’s overblown tales of those days.

From New York Times