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Somewhere in the Thurber canon there is a description 'from Xxx to Yyy', for someone gutted open from nethers to neck. Would one of you educated folk please give me the full expression here?
How about "The 13 Clocks". In that one, the Duke killed and gutted his victims and fed them to his geese. Is that what you meant? I read that so long ago, I certainly can't remember an exact quote, though.
~Tom
I don't know the story, but there is, I was told, a precise phrase, 'from ... to ...', where the start and end points are nonce words. I'm looking for that nonce word phrase.
How about, "gutted like fish." Take care. Vern
I'll slit him from his guggle to his zatch.
I'm no Thurber expert, this is what Google said.
That's it! Thank you, Janet. I couldn't figure out how to frame a query without at least one of the words.
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