[ No room for squiggly troops. Draw your scabbard and start slicing people’s throats. ]
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A clumsy attempt to replicate H L Mencken’s quote...
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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Self-reporting a misuse of wording... scabbard/ should have read; sword or dagger.
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scabbard /skăb′ərd/
noun
A sheath, as for a dagger, sword, or rifle.
The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
Similar: sheath
A long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus argyreus syn. Lepidopus caudatus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.
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