fine figure

Definition

fine figure rate

(Adult / Slang)

Quote: Tillie Schlaine (Carol Burnett) to Pete Seltzer (Walter Matthau) in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972):
-- Tillie: ' What do you think? '
-- Pete: ' I think you are a fine figure of a woman.'
-- Tillie: ' I wasn't asking about me. I was asking about the apartment.'
-- Pete: ' Oh. It needs a man's touch.'
-- Tillie: ' Incidentally, for future reference, no woman who fancies she has a good figure likes to hear she's a fine figure of a woman. The two aren't the same at all.'