Pliːz Difficult Pleasing People I Man Pleased Verb

• you can't please everybody.
• he's a difficult man to please.
• there's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please).
• i did it to please my parents.

please

1. to make somebody happy
• opposite displease
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• You can't please everybody.
• He's a difficult man to please.
• There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please).
• I did it to please my parents.
• She's always very eager to please.
2. often used after as or what, where, etc. to mean ‘to want’, ‘to choose’ or ‘to like’ to do something
• You may stay as long as you please.
• She always does exactly as she pleases.
• I'm free now to live wherever I please.
3. used when politely asking somebody to do something
• Take a seat, if you please.
4. used to say that you are annoyed or surprised at somebody’s actions
• And now, if you please, he wants me to rewrite the whole thing!
5. to be very attractive to look at
6. used to say that you very much hope or wish that something will happen
• Please God, don't let him be dead.
7. used to tell somebody that you are annoyed with them and do not care what they do
• ‘I don't think I'll bother finishing this.’ ‘Please yourself.’
8. to be able to do whatever you like
• There were no children to cook for, so we could just please ourselves.

Extra Examples

• Some children are very difficult to please.
• The planning policy failed to please anyone.
• The result pleased us enormously.
• There’s just no pleasing some people.
• He’s a difficult man to please.
• She’s always very eager to please.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they please
• he / she / it pleases
• past simple pleased
• past participle pleased
• -ing form pleasing

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere.