> He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. It had never occurred to me before that, in this phrase, 'clockwork' is the adjective and 'orange' is the noun. I'd

> He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. It had never occurred to me before that, in this phrase, 'clockwork' is the adjective and 'orange' is the noun. I'd always assumed it was the other way around (and wondered idly what it meant!).