# The Lady is a Tramp
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 12, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032 "2013-08-12T12:29:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032/1 "2013-08-12T12:29:09Z")
In this Frank Sinatra song this phrase seems to be used in a complimentary fashion. Can someone please explain? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032/2 "2013-08-12T12:34:18Z")
We have discussed this before. In short, he is supporting her choices against those hypocrites who are finding fault with her free-wheeling lifestyle.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032/3 "2013-08-12T12:45:45Z")
It’s irony. The lady is a “tramp” according to her stuck-up, materialistic, sheep-like friends.
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### Author:  [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032/4 "2013-08-12T12:49:18Z")
She’s a sincere, unsophisticated girl who genuinely enjoys life – everyone judging her is a hypocritical jaded snob who takes life for granted, so in their elitist eyes, she’s an uncouth hick who just fell off the turnip truck, hence they dismiss her as a tramp.
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### Author:  [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lady-is-a-tramp/666032/5 "2013-08-12T13:17:12Z")
For further details, the song is not originally by Frank Sinatra but from the musical _Babes in Arms_.
I expect if you saw that, it would make a lot more sense. Or, if you’re only interested in the Sinatra version, I’m sure watching _Pal Joey_ will explain that one.