Brain

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Brain

Postby dreams » Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:17 pm

Meaning: To strike at the head, to smash brains out.

Wycliffe Isaiah 66:3

"That slayeth a beast, as that brayne a dog."

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Postby dreams » Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:18 pm

"I could brain him with his lady's fan"
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, II, iii.23

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Postby dreams » Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:40 pm

Common slag: Beat his brains out. Knock his brains out.


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