Cats love to groom themselves, and will often spend
hours preening and cleaning their fur.
Contrary to the «quick spruce» stereotype, 1 in 5 men would spend between 1 to 2
hours preening themselves for a date, and 39 % of women would do the same.
For instance, adolescents often spend
hours preening themselves because they think, «everyone will notice if I don't look good.»
Not exact matches
At a guess I would say that if you're a woman you can probably spend 1
hour upwards
preening and titivating and if you're a man you can be showered, shaved and out of the door within 20 minutes (unless, of course, you're a metro - sexual in which case you probably take longer than a woman!).
Funny without being distracting, though she can deliver when it's her time to shine, which works for
Preen's eleventh -
hour speech.
Asked if he spent
hours plucking and
preening, Marty modestly replied, «No, it's sheer and utter natural talent - nothing else.»