"peel me a grape" meaning in English

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Phrase

Etymology: First recorded use by Mae West in the 1933 film I'm no Angel: "Beulah, (yes ma'am) peel me a grape." Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} peel me a grape
  1. A request to be pampered or to have one's whims indulged. Wikipedia link: Mae West

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          "text": "His early, brilliant \"Peel Me a Grape,\" which has long been one of Blossom Dearie's anthems, laughs at social ennui in the seventies and eighties in the way that Cole Porter laughed at it in the thirties: Peel me a grape, crush me some ice, Skin me a peach, save the fuzz for my pillow, Start me a smoke, talk to me nice, You gotta wine me and dine me, Don't try and fool me, bejewel me, Either amuse me or lose me, I'm gettin' hungry -- peel me a grape.",
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          "ref": "2011, Maggie Graham, Me and My Animals, page 80",
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