Monday, February 05, 2007

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Why are those belonging to witches colder than others?

6F chez moi ce matin.
Ahhhhhh, j'aime l'hiver!
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Posted at 7:42 AM

2 comments:

Ray said...

Not to be picky - well, alright, in the interests of being excruciatingly picky - there's nothing in the phrase to indicate that a witch's thoracic appendage is colder than that of anyone else's thoracic appendage, since the witch's appendage is the comparand (ooh - a new word!).

But I don't like pedantry, so let's just pretend I didn't make this comment.

Mon Feb 05, 12:42:00 PM
Anonymous said...

According to: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/583.html,

"The simple explanation is that "colder than a witch's tit" is just a vivid metaphor, like "hotter than the hinges of hell." Since a
witch is in league with Satan, presumably she has no maternal feelings. Thus the medium by which she would suckle a child is,
well, cold as a witch's tit."

So there you have it.

Mon Feb 05, 03:34:00 PM

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