Fate - Fate Worse than Death

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Fate - Fate Worse than Death

Postby dreams » Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:26 pm

Meaning: Rape

Probably originated in Victorian England and attested to the belief that a dishonoured woman was better off dead. Still used but ironically of late. Edgar Rice Burroughs used it in his Tarzan of the Apes, 1914. 'The ape ... bearing Jane Porter away toward a fate a thousand times worse than death'.

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