"Replaced by a two-inch clamp"

[Joel S. Berson]

A friend says that in her teen-age years (late 1950s) her father used
to say "you could be replaced by a two-inch clamp."  Is this in the
Yale Book of Quotations?

She and I sense a sexual undertone in this, but are not
sure.  Perhaps a device for autoerotic stimulation, an alternative to
a vagina?  Seems a little far-fetched.

Joel

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