Lounge lizard


A lounge lizard is a man who frequents social establishments with the intention of seducing a woman with his flattery and deceptive charm.
In Buster Keaton's 1924 film Sherlock Jr., Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater where the movie showing is "Hearts & Pearls or The Lounge Lizard's Lost Love". The movie within a movie has a character who is good looking and well dressed, who is romantically involved with a wealthy young woman.