"Hustle [one's] nuts"

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, it was mentioned in a review of a Lily Tomlin stage show from
many (25?) years ago. In one of her sketches she played a lounge
lizard. The reviewer wrote that she was masculine to the extent of
_hustling "his" nuts_ or words to that effect.

I've never heard the phrase spoken and that was the only time that
I've ever seen it in print (Time? Newsweek? NYT?). The writer didn't
say what the phrase meant, but, to me, its meaning seems "intuitively
obvious," to coin a phrase.

I just got tired of waiting for it to come up again. "If you want a
thing done, do it yourself," as the saying goes.

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately not until now.
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> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is anyone else familiar with this expression used to describe what's
>> otherwise described by "grab [one's] crotch" or some such?
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>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>> -Mark Twain
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