or situation, TO BE IN A, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be with child.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, lxix. So that I cannot leave her in such an INTERESTING SITUATION, which I hope will produce something to crown my felicity.
1751. SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle, lxxxi. I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations in such an INTERESTING SITUATION, etc.
1838. DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby, xxix. Mrs. Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an INTERESTING STATE).
