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"Heads on a pike" is a common expression. "Eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines" is not.
by googthrowaway42 6y ago
"Heads on a pike" is a common expression.
"Eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines" is not.
- jacobolus 6y ago“Heads on pikes” is used as a hyperbolic shorthand for any kind of public shaming, especially when someone is fired. But “Mount their heads on pikes at the corners of the White House as a warning the way they used to do to traitors in Tudor England” is nothing close to a common expression.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoThat's not a direct quote so why put it in quotes? Why can't you just be honest about what the guy actually said?