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Letter "H" » hog
«Steal the hog and give the feet for alms»
«I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.»
«When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.»
«The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.»
«You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!»
«The earth holds the fool and holds the wise, endures that good and bad dwell (upon her); she keeps company with the boar, gives herself up to the wild hog.»
«SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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accomplishing,
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«I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.»