"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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You have no choice but to call things figs or troughs or spades.

Or is the point that figs, troughs, and spades, are euphemisms for
something else ?

Fig certainly is ; it was a vulgar term for female sex organ, at least
500 years ago, in Italian, Spanish and English. "I don't give a fig" did
not refer to fruit, and the modesty "fig leaf" on nudes was a double
entendre.

Damn, I just posted an article asking about this before reading the rest of
the posts!(:-(

Alan


Spade = black person.

Janet.


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