![]() ![]() "It was very common for Japanese troops to dig very small, one-man concealed foxholes," says William L. According to two historians, the term goes back at least to World War II, when it was used by Marines and Army troops fighting in the Pacific. Of course, "spider hole" was not concocted to describe Hussein's hideout. Is Hussein a mighty dictator, or just an eight-legged creature that eats flies for lunch? On the food chain, the arachnid is below the dog, the pig and even the rat, the most popular subhuman beings we use to label folks we really don't like. Used by a military spokesman to describe the tiny, camouflaged hole-in-the-ground where Saddam Hussein was found over the weekend, the phrase conjures the lair of a sneaky, ugly, menacing creature, a thing so dumb and degraded it lives only to kill and be killed. Pluck off come down (in aspiration literally 'undress')Ĭount i.e.Even in an age fraught with military euphemisms, when phrases such as "high value target" and "improvised explosive device" haunt us with their very vagueness, there is occasionally a term of great evocative power and, yes, beauty - a term such as "spider hole." Queen it play the queen / be a prostitute ('quean')īear … title endure the title of duchess / support the weight of the duke during sex / receive the duke's semen / give birth to the duke's child I would not be a young count in your way, OLD LADY: Then you are weakly made: pluck off a little: What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs Old as I am, to queen it: but, I pray you, OLD LADY: 'Tis strange: a threepence bowed would hire me, ![]() Sharp sauce biting riposte / bitter sauce for foodĪnd … goose? alludes to the proverb 'sweet meat must have sour sauce', suggesting that the sauce (semen) is being served sexually to the goose (prostitute)Įll forty-five inches / penis From The Life of King Henry VIII, Act 2, Scene 3 MERCUTIO: O here's a wit of cheverel, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! ROMEO: And is it not then well served into a sweet goose? MERCUTIO: Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is a most sharp sauce. ![]() And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.įrench withered pears old fruits / syphilitic vaginasĮats dryly tastes dry From Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3 ![]() PAROLLES: … Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. Wrong wrongdoing / shaming penis / illegitimate childįrom All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 1 Pie-corner area in London famous for cooks' shops, saddlers and prostitution ('pie' and 'corner' were both slang terms for the vagina )īorne been patient / borne the weight of a man during sex Undone ruined financially / sexually, in terms of reputation Stabbed hurt financially / penetrated sexually There is no honesty in such dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on. I pra'ye, since my exion is entered and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer. He comes continuantly to Pie-corner - saving your manhoods - to buy a saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber's-head in Lombard Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. Good Master Fang, hold him sure: good Master Snare, let him not 'scape. I warrant he is an infinitive thing upon my score. MISTRESS QUICKLY: I am undone with his going. I'll be at your elbow.įANG: If I but fist him once, if he come but within my vice. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.įANG: If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust. He cares not what mischief he doth, if his weapon be out. Take heed of him: he stabbed me in mine own house, and that most beastly. ![]()
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