[Ads-l] QOTY? "It was not my first sword dance." --- Rex Tillerson.

[Dan Goncharoff]

"Not that there's anything wrong with that," from Seinfeld, has the same
connotation.

DanG

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:00 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> > >
> > > I never knew that the phrase had a gay connotation, and I doubt that
> > > Tillerson does either.
> >
> > It doesn’t, I’m pretty sure.  “Sword fight” does, as noted with the
> reference below to the jousting shenanigans—not a *gay* connotation
> > necessarily, but that’s in the ballpark. (See
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sword%20fighting for
> details.)  Even
> > urban dictionary doesn’t have anything racy on sword dancing.
> >
> >
>
> See the phrase, "That's what SHE said," especially as used by Michael
> Scott on "The Office."  It follows that ANY phrase (at least, any phrase
> involving something as phallic as a sword) can be made to have a racy
> and/or gay connotation.  "Sword dance" may not currently have one, but it
> could.
>
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