Lounge Lizard

A lounge lizard is supposedly a man who frequents social establishments with the intention of seducing a woman with flattery and deceptive charm. The term is reported to have arisen around 1915 in New York.
I found an hilarious description online from a 1931 book describing them as "men (in) the habit of lounging in different dance resorts from tea time on, on a chance of picking up a few dollars, or they might be habitués of the place, or an outer room, described as a 'lounge', for the purpose of picking up girls or women. In Europe, he subsequently evolved into what is known as the gigolo".
I couldn't quite conjure up a dance resort from the 1930's with a disreputable character for today's image so I have gone done the literal route - this is just a lizard who happens to reside in our lounge, or rather a ceramic lizard from a collectibles emporium combined with a glass artwork of a line of beach huts from an art gallery, which my brother bought during one of our micro trips to Rye in East Sussex.