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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Philip Dick's novel PUTTERING ABOUT IN A SMALL LAND | | English term or phrase: with corks up their asses | A list of war terrors by a somewhat hysterical character of the book:
“… men killed for fat bankers to float loans, generals who screwed their orderlies, training camps in which recruits died by the thousands of bubonic plague, illness and suffering and money mixed together, ration stamps, V-D posters, short-arm inspections, M-1 rifles, USO entertainers with corks up their asses, motherfuckers and fairies… he saw the sky flash and drip…” |
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| | stiff, formal | Explanation:
There are a series of such expressions including stick up his ass, broomstick up his ass.
The image brings up the inflexibility of the person/personality that is terribly upright, (both physically and in style) propped up by that foreign object like a human puppet -- that physical propping is an image for an upright/righteous set up rules. |
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9 mins confidence:   to be stuffy, particular about something
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Someone who not only exercised his right to free speech but wrote countless wakeup calls about the state of this nation and this world. In a world of sychophants and ass-kissing yesmen, he said what he thought and did it in very eloquent ways. Those who have a cork up their asses about bad language were unable to get over the colour to see the depth to much of his work. Although not all of them write for the Sunday Times.
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