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Examples
“Ofsted described how one head teacher had reintroduced flogging for talking in class, and had seen a 98% reduction in disciplinary reports after 300 pupils were given the cat-o-nine-tails in a single week.”
“Do they refer to flogging with the cat-o-nine-tails, or to animal cruelty?”
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“Snow lashed his spun-glass angel hair around like a white Persian cat-o-nine-tails and ended the song with long, wailing banshee of a guitar chord.”
“When I was a prosecutor I noticed that most all? crime victims wanted the sentence to be 500 lashes with a cat-o-nine-tails personally administered by the victim or their designee.”
“Moreover, unlike torture, corporal punishment will normally consist of a determinate set of specific, pre-determined and publicly known acts administered during a definite and limited time period, e.g. ten lashes of the cat-o-nine-tails for theft.”
““Experts flagestimate that a cat-o-nine-tails is far too advanced for beginners S&M roleplaying.””
“The weather was my bitch this weekend - it submitted so completely that I rarely had to unholster my cat-o-nine-tails.”
“The keyboard is of the variety which regularly spews forth unchecked hiragana unless I keep it suppressed by means of my mighty mental powers and a handy cat-o-nine-tails.”
“A union rep would be pounding on the door with a phalanx of lawyers and a cat-o-nine-tails before the first hour was up.”
“I'm thinking about making an electrically-conductive cat-o-nine-tails or flogger for the theremin cable whip technique: using multiple strands of equal length should give me a slightly longer pulse from the field the same as swinging slower.”
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Special Beasts
I'm looking for compounds or phrases where the character of an animal is essential to the meaning, yet the term is usable in general conversation.
scapegoat, bull market, sacred cow, bear market, hangdog, cat o' nine tails, clothes horse, mousey, donkey drop, black sheep, horseplay, ducks and drakes and 94 more...
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Hit list
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chained_bear Me too, muamor! I made a list of the words I learned on that thing. Oh where is it... *rummaging*. Yeah, here. Mar 1, 2008
muamor Cool. Came accross with this one in Facebook. I think I have some sort of addiction to the 'Donate Rice' application. Yes. Words. Feb 29, 2008