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catherine wheel
noun
A breaking wheel.
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Brodsky was a Catherine Wheel of metaphysical brilliance, scathing insults, and intellectual splendor.
And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.
Joseph Poulton supplies a ballet of dark dazzle: he could be a Catherine wheel.
That used to be part of the fun, a lit catherine wheel landing on your anorak.
"The Catherine Wheel" was a failed Broadway dansical that Ms. Tharp created in 1981.
Down in the City was republished late last year and The Catherine Wheel is due in September.
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Now he sports Catherine-wheel eyes and a slightly slack jaw.
Less than a week later, after the Catherine-wheel innings against South Africa at the MCG, the whole world knew of him.
Four waist-length black hairdos catherine-wheel in time to colossal riffs, red robes billowing in a backdraft of psychedelic reverb.
FROM space, there are few more awe-inspiring sights on the earth's surface than a hurricane: a white Catherine-wheel swirl of cloud sailing over an ocean's perfect blue.
At their back, four astonishingly beautiful tiger pelts are arranged, Catherine wheel-like, at full stretch.
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