shish

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He is president of the restaurant association and takes the job as seriously as his shish kebab family platter.

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  • It was metal and spiky and about three feet long, and it shish-kabobbed his hamstring like a shrimp on a toothpick. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • Okay, that's a mixed metaphor, but it'll be a long time before I eat either shrimp or shish-kabob again. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • The band reduced itself to the whispering shish-shish of waves on the beach below. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29
  • He gave me a glance, and my panic at the thought of being alone with a guy who'd just shish-kebabed a powerful vamp must have shown. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • He is having lunch at the Dugout, which is a bar in the basement of the Governor House Hotel that serves a neat dish of Armenian shish-kebab. —  165 - The Devil Is Jones
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