shout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common use
shout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common use
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I think "raise a great hue and cry" predates our boy Leon and may be a Shakespear thing.
31 0 ReplyForms of the term "hue and cry" date from at least the 13th century and are first encountered in the Anglo-French legal documents of that period.
30 0 ReplyI hath drawn thee as a chaste hwelp
lo I hath drawn mē selfum as a strang hund
hue and cry about it lubberwort
33 0 ReplySee, cope and seethe is as old as the English language. It's a very important thing to say to someone.
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leon trotsky invented the term "cope and seethe", rendering debate impossible
25 0 Reply"nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
"Hue and cry. Die mad about it."
24 0 ReplyAside from it not being his coining, it's rich to see him try to drop a "cope and seethe" about a decade into his career of being a professional cope and seether just before finally being put out of his misery
18 0 ReplySame energy as making it seem like Trotsky invented armored trains and the word racism
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As Red Emma succinctly said : methinks Trotsky complains too much
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