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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Nose removal will have a forceful effect on the face.
But it seems too late your clarion call comes in to endeavour saving our buddies from cutting their noses to spike their faces!
https://candid-talks-forum.blogspot.ca/ … spike.html
Starting to believe certain people on here avoid my offers just because of jealously…talk about cutting off your nose to spike your face!
https://matchedbettingblog.com/topic/be … Ln9-_KlfKo
This could have happened on any airline. So don’t cut off Delta to spike your face.
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Possibly a volleyball image behind this switch.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I immediately got a picture of driving a metal spike into something, to render it inoperable. (What is the standard image for that one, I can’t bring it to mind. I seem to have some kind of memory of some Luddite types (but more modern-era) disabling others’ machinery by spiking it.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Two things come to mind. First, tree-spiking: anti-logging people have hammered metal spikes into at-risk trees to make chainsawing them a dangerous proposition, and it got a lot of press in the early ‘90s. Second, and approximately contemporaneous with the original Luddites, is spiking cannons: to disable muzzle-loading cannons by firmly hammering a tapered piece of metal into the touch-hole that was used to set them off. Often done before retreating from a fortification to deny the enemy the use of its artillery.
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Spike for spite was originally suggested by the drastic makeup suggestion, to cut off your nose to spice your face.
When an ex was being pissy about something I told him that he was “cutting his nose off to spite his face.” A few weeks later, when I was being stubborn, he told me I was “spicing my nose.” Nothing like being doubled over with laughter to bring an argument to a crashing halt.
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/11262 … heard-read
Was his nose cut off to spice his face ? What is the origin of that phrase, anyone know ?
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These wealthy elites want us slaves to continue to make them richer. You have cut off your noses to spice your face on this one and I fear that you will be too proud or too ignorant to admit your mistake.
http://politic365.com/2016/12/09/dumb-v … ti-worker/
See also the delightful classic, despite one’s face.
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