A magnificently innovative and rugged boxer, Magomed had a left hook—which was more of a butcher's hook than a punch.
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" Janet Ellis (The Butcher's Hook) refers to a man's erection as an "audacious swell," and when a woman orgasms, Ellis writes, "I spill like grain from a bucket.
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They delightfully compliment the hanging sculptures "Les Amoureux" ("Lovers") and "Crochet avec Mains-Rodin" ("Hook with Rodin Hands") — a black sculpture of two gorillas hanging on a butcher's hook above a miniature Rodin sculpture.
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A huge butcher's hook from 1600 hangs solemnly in a glass case as a reminder that this grisly, wrought-iron object is how dead flesh has been stored for much of human history: it makes today's supermarkets, with their packaged sausages and frozen lamb chops, look bloodlessly sanitised by contrast.
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Janet Michell Ellis, (born 16 September 1955)Janet Ellis's profile on the BBC's Blue Peter web pages is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, The Butcher's Hook (2016) and How It Was (2019). She is the mother of the singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the drummer (and former child actor) Jackson Ellis-Leach and the art historian Martha Ellis-Leach.
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Following a long-held ambition to write fiction, Ellis attended a writing course in early 2014 run by the Curtis Brown agency. During the course she began writing her first novel, and after completing it her agent Gordon Wise submitted it to publishers under the pseudonym Jo Winter, the name of one of her grandmothers. A bidding war resulted in Ellis securing a six-figure two-book deal with Two Roads. The novel, The Butcher's Hook, was published under Ellis's own name in February 2016.
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Some substitutions have become relatively widespread in England in their contracted form. "To have a butcher's", meaning to have a look, originates from "butcher's hook", an S-shaped hook used by butchers to hang up meat, and dates from the late nineteenth century but has existed independently in general use from around the 1930s simply as "butchers". Similarly, "use your loaf", meaning "use your head", derives from "loaf of bread" and also dates from the late nineteenth century but came into independent use in the 1930s. Conversely usages have lapsed, or been usurped ("Hounslow Heath" for teeth, was replaced by "Hampsteads" from the heath of the same name, stating c. 1887).
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Chelsea's squad in 1905 Chelsea Football Club were founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub, (now The Butcher's Hook) opposite today's main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road. Since there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough, the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, was settled on after London FC, Kensington FC and Stamford Bridge FC had been rejected. Blue shirts were adopted by Mears, after the racing colors of Lord Chelsea, along with white shorts and dark blue socks. Chelsea initially considering joining the Southern League, but were rejected following objections from Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur, so they instead applied for admission to the Football League.
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