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make the beast with two backs
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Literary phrase dating back to William Shakespeare meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone in a face-to-face embrace. 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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