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#1 2009-02-07 05:59:03

Peter Forster
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'steamy underbelly' for 'seamy underbelly'

Most of these steamy underbellies seem to reside in cities and, apparently, are best explored at night. It suggests sexual heat (Marilyn’s dress being suddenly lifted by gusty exhalations from subway vents?) and fermenting concupiscence more tellingly than the usual seamy underbelly/underside and though some usage may be deliberate, much seems genuine:

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Situated in Picadilly Gardens Hotel Rossetti is a good place to explore the steamy underbelly of Manchester nightlife.With the Northern Quarter and Oldham …
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The guest for August was Harry Hunsicker, famed Dallas author of the Lee Henry Oswald thrillers set in the steamy underbelly of Dallas. ...
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... Velvet by Sarah Waters, as I begin yet another adventure (this time about a lesbian music-hall singer) into the steamy underbelly of Victorian London. ...
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From the bleak opening of a slum in an American city to the frantic ending in the steamy underbelly of New Orleans you somehow feel you have been in the …
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Stahl, by day writes clever, cutting-edge television scripts and by night explores the steamy underbelly of Los Angeles in an often desperate quest to feed …
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#2 2009-02-07 09:39:58

Wordworking
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Re: 'steamy underbelly' for 'seamy underbelly'

I suspect a lot of sex is being illicited in those steamy underbellies.

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