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(n.) a pretext (or post-text) for some otherwise unjustifiable action, especially when one's original idea founders. (From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III.iii, wherein Cinna the Poet is mistaken for Cinna the conspirator, and the mob begins shrieking "tear him to pieces!" Cinna desperately calls out, "I am Cinna the poet ... Cinna the poet!" With hardly a pause, the mob cries "Tear him for his bad verses!" Just so that they have a pretext for "tearing the man.")
First Citizen
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.
CINNA THE POET
I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
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"Could I have a turkey sandwich and some chips, please." "What?! This isn't fast food, man; it's an ER!" "Well, bad verses! So point me to your cafeteria, or one of those sandwich vending machines." |
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