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Their opinion is it is most unpleasant, but not in any way bad enough they would prefer all their fingers smashed or other grisely torture, to it.
"If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers..." Ann Althouse 2007
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This somewhat odious metaphor was bottomed on the work of the British poet laureate John Skelton, tutor to Henry VIII, who wrote in 1520: “Yf they smell a ratt/They grisely chide and chatt.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This somewhat odious metaphor was bottomed on the work of the British poet laureate John Skelton, tutor to Henry VIII, who wrote in 1520: “Yf they smell a ratt/They grisely chide and chatt.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This somewhat odious metaphor was bottomed on the work of the British poet laureate John Skelton, tutor to Henry VIII, who wrote in 1520: “Yf they smell a ratt/They grisely chide and chatt.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This somewhat odious metaphor was bottomed on the work of the British poet laureate John Skelton, tutor to Henry VIII, who wrote in 1520: “Yf they smell a ratt/They grisely chide and chatt.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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