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do the beast with two backs
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Or: do the two-backed beast , an old literary term, dating back to Shakespeare, for sexual intercourse in a face-to-face embrace such as the missionary position. See copulation for synonyms.Quotes:
(1) William Shakespeare. Othello (1605): Iago: ' I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.'
(2) French author François Rabelais (1494-1553) (Translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart, 1653): ' These two did often do the two-backed beast together in so far that at last she became great with child.'
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