LaMalinche
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ORIGINAL: ChainedExistence Focus...What is " frog-marching"?...that's a new phrase for me! From wikipedia Frog marching refers to the practice of forcibly transporting a suspect or prisoner through a public place, up to and including carrying him/her by the limbs, causing them to be splayed in such a fashion that the person resembles a frog. Unlike the similar term perp walk, which refers to a less forcible transport of a prisoner (who often moves under his own power), the term frog march is used when the prisoner is forcibly moved. Sometimes, frog-marching is necessary to transport prisoners who are uncooperative or intoxicated. However it is often alleged that many frog-marches are unnecessary, and intended to primarily humiliate the prisoner; after a severe physical punishment has left the agonized victim unable to walk or nearly, carrying the punishee by four men, each grabbing a limb commonly constitutes the humiliating last part of the rather degrading routine, which the strongest and most courage try, if allowed, to spare themselves by 'marching' back to their cell despite the hellish pain in the fresh wounds. The term achieved a great deal of public currency in October 2003, when Joseph Wilson, outraged that someone in the Bush Administration had allegedly leaked the to the press the fact that his wife Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative (effectively ending her career), stated that he would love to see the guilty party "frog-marched out of the White House". a variation in Australia: to hustle someone forward, after seizing from behind and pinning the arms or seizing by the scruff of the neck and the back of the trousers From the web - http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/f-3.php Hope that helps LaMalinche ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die." EM Forester
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