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“You said an earful.”
“How could you say with your ear? I thought it was with your mouth.”
“No – ‘You said a mouthful’ means saying something important. It is a common term not intended to be formal or precise.”
“Ah – so you would not use it if you wanted to hit the eye –?”
“I wouldn't hit a bull of any kind.”
“No, no! The eye-bull.”
“Oh, you mean the eye-ball. I should not … You mean the ‘Power of the human eye’.”
“No, no! You haven't hit the eye-bull.”
“No, I haven't, because I don't want to be rammed up the arse by an irate bull.”
“Ah, yes – Arse and Craft. In my country everyone say how beautiful the craft and arse of England are.”