Sentence examples for dry shit from inspiring English sources

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When Nabokov was working on a study of Gogol, he complained, "I have lost a week already translating passages I need in 'The Inspector General' as I can do nothing with Constance Garnett's dry shit".

Dry shit and concrete!

They fashion toilet paper into "manpons" and wedge it into their crack in a desperate attempt to dry shit out down there.

From '98 onwards it had been like a pair of concrete boxer shorts round my chicken-feed waist and they wouldn't fucking wash properly either, dry shit and concrete!

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From a superficial reading, my novel's treatment of the Prophet would seem to leave Salman Rushdie in the dust, but I also imagined there being something cool and beautiful in that, like the lunatic Zen poets who called the Buddha a dried shit-stick.

Ammunition is expensive and bandits reuse shell casings up to five times, forging new shot from the lead in old car batteries and mixing gunpowder from black market potassium nitrate, charcoal and dried zebu shit.

But when the money goes dry, you're shit out of luck.

"It's all dry and dead shit now".

I couldn't be fucked to strain it, but you're welcome to dry that soggy shit out and smoke any life left in it.

When Cate finishes a furious rant on the morning after he has raped her by accusing him of biting her until she bled, he turns, baffled, to exclaim: "Is that what this is all about?" When finally it starts to rain on him through a hole in the hotel roof as he lies buried in the devastated hotel, his dry, deadpan exclamation of "shit" is beautifully measured.

That's a typical joke for the show, which overflows with shooting-the-shit banter, dry little pauses, and undermining jabs, with Earn and Paper Boi providing the deadpan and Darius the clownish free association.

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