pinkie promise

Example Sentences

• "They were the first players to sign the agreements under USC Coach Steve Sarkisian and UCLA Coach Jim Mora. "I feel like it's turning a handshake into a pinkie promise that you'll go there," [Josh] Rosen said."
• "As if this weren’t reassurance enough, up pops our foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to say he’s had a nice natter with Brunei’s foreign minister, who told him that prosecutions of this kind would be “unlikely”. Well, so long as it’s merely “unlikely” that people are stoned to death, that’s fine. Except it isn’t, is it? What is this – a weird diplomatic “pinkie promise”, which means precisely nothing?"
• "There is no better example than his ill-fated promise to bind together two major pieces of legislation, Build Back Better and the infrastructure bill, in a kind of pinkie promise between progressives and moderates."
• "“I will help you,” Leslie [Knope] tells her and, in a moment of vision and daring, “pinkie promises” to build a park on the abandoned property."
• "Then she [Elizabeth Warren] got down on one knee to demonstrate how she talked to young girls on a regular basis: “I’d usually get down, I’m a teacher, and I would say, ‘Hi, my name is Elizabeth and I’m running for Senate because that’s what girls do.’” Ms. Warren also said she asked them to pinkie promise to run for Senate one day."
• "But that semi-final snigger means Alan has an even bigger target on his back. He could now adopt a tactic of all-out attack. He “pinkie promised” allegiance to co-conspirator Cat Burns and might depend on her backing to survive."