Re: short-and-curlies

"Father Ignatius" <FatherIgnatius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:duudfo$ssr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"His ex-wife kept jerking his short-and-curlies, and he'd bought a Harley
a
few months ago in what I'd diagnosed as suicidal ideation."

Something seems to me to be idiomatically wrong here, but I can't quite --
so to speak -- put my finger on it. One is surely jerked around, but not
by
the short-and-curlies, yes? When someone has you by the
short-and-curlies,
it's different from being jerked, yes?

Judicious lucidity requested.

Yeah, it's odd, but what strikes me more is the wild swing of register from
jerking SnCs to ideating suicidally.

Adrian


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