Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

Quoth John Cowan:
> Nik Taylor scripsit:
> > Bryan Maloney wrote:
> > > "built like a brick shithouse"--used to describe a woman with a most
> > > excellently-shaped body.
> >
> > You mean that's a compliment?  Sounds rather insulting to me.
>
> It is a compliment; it means "stacked", "well-developed".
> Of course, not everyone *likes* that body type, which is another matter.
Funny how that phrase means such entirely different things in this
context.  If I heard a woman described as being "built like a brick
shithouse" I would assume she was this tall, wide, 300-lbs-and-all-
of-that-muscle woman who would cream me on the sports field.  No
reference at all to her, er, endowments.  (Not that it's an insult,
either, but it's not *that* sort of compliment. ;)

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