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Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

From:Melissa Phong <melissap@...>
Date:Friday, October 15, 1999, 21:29
And DB said:
>Quoth Theodore Kloba: >> David Brookshire Conner wrote: >> > shit for brains - stupid >> > shit-faced - drunk >> > shit a (backwards) porcupine - to become extremely upset and angry >> > the little shit(s) - annoying bad person, incompetent bumbler >> > sack of shit - a pathetic person, alt. a big lie >> >> Don't forget "to shit a brick," which is another (dialectical?) variatio=
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>> on "shit a porcupine" above.
>Yes, and "built like a brick shithouse" for someone who is built, well, >rather sturdily. :)
And nowadays we have the rather delicate "Put up or shut up." But my=20 grandmother was fond of saying, "Shit or get off the=20 pot."