shillelagh

• “For those not versed in Irish history or post WWII cartoons, a shillelagh is a wooden club, typically made from a stout knotty stick, with a large knob on the end.”

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• “Oh, and for the publication quest, be sure to pack your shillelagh.”

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• “The rest of the day I'll spend wandering the halls of Congress with my shillelagh and shamrocks, doing my best impersonation of St. Patrick as I try to drive the snakes out of Capitol Hill.”

  The Huffington Post: The Green They Steal, the Greed They Wear ...a St. Patrick's Day Lamentation

• “Charlie had gone from crutches to a cane, which he now swung around as he walked, like the same old shillelagh me father brought from Ireland.”

  Simon & Schuster: EVENING’S EMPIRE

• “She caressed his flaccid shillelagh, wondering if Ricki would ever forgive her; wondering, too, if she would have felt half this good after sex with Ricki.”

  Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

• “Because it's full of the kind of leprechaun, shillelagh, Erin Go Bragh factor, which is a bit cringy.”

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• “And in the immortal words of John Belushi, "I'd like to smash you in the face with my shillelagh".”

  Happy St. Pee's Day

• “Get a large shillelagh or similar cudgel, and learn to be threatening.”

  Yes, I Have A Daughter « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “In subsequent installments he would employ magic to escape, which always seemed counterproductive – why not use your enchanted shillelagh to make the earth swallow them ...”

  6 – March – 2009 – The Bleat.

• “Trying to transcribe the sound Lestrade makes when Craggy McThug applies the shillelagh: “Ack-meh!””

  100 Mysteries: Holmes is scornful of a hot dame – The Bleat.

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