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.
- Forms 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.
  
  I hath drawn thee as a chaste hwelp
  
  lo I hath drawn mē selfum as a strang hund
  
  hue and cry about it lubberwort
  
  See, cope and seethe is as old as the English language. It's a very important thing to say to someone.
leon trotsky invented the term "cope and seethe", rendering debate impossible
"nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

"Hue and cry. Die mad about it."
Aside 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
- Same energy as making it seem like Trotsky invented armored trains and the word racism
As Red Emma succinctly said : methinks Trotsky complains too much

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