"Replaced by a two-inch clamp"

[Laurence Horn]

>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.
>
not to mention painful, if that's the right reading

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