[Ads-l] skinback

[Mark Mandel]

Wilson, this old (71yrs) white guy, lifelong language geek, does not recall
*ever* hearing "skinback" or "peel back [one's] skin" in any sense,
including the foreskin. Plenty of times "walk( )back", verb or noun, but
not "skin( )back".

Mark Mandel


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 1:38 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> . "... peeling back your skin and feeling the pain."
>
> There's no pain involved in skinning it back.<har!har!>
>
> Can it truly be the case that journalists see no immediate connection
> between the term, "skinback," as in the retraction of a premise and the
> phrase, "skinning it back," as in the retraction of the foreskin? And "as
> in peeling back your skin and feeling the pain" is actually meant to be
> taken literally? There are actually (white?) people who peel back their
> skin and feel the pain?
>
> Clearly, the Cotton Curtain was more impermeable than the Iron Curtain!
>
>
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