Re: Words of the day: "box" and "bolt"

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Eh... I don't know where you've heard this expression, but I personally
> never did! The French expression is normally "tailler une pipe".
There's a monograph named "(something) tailler un plume", the author of
which I forget.  Gershom Legman printed an English translation of it in
his book _Oragenitalism_.

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