The quickest, and simplest, way to enhance a fighter's record is to keep him away from difficult fights — which is to say, to serve him up a vulnerable opponent.
Following the rape and mutilation of Philomela by her sister's husband, Tereus, the sister takes her revenge by murdering Tereus's son, Itys, and serving him up for dinner to the unwitting father.
Tantalus, the son of Zeus who is punished for stealing the gods' secrets, and for killing his own son and serving him up to them at a feast, will not be seen.
(Hard to conceive since the book is a boldly surreal monologue by the crazed Sir Hugo, who has murdered his prospective son-in-law, fed him to the pigs and then served him up to his bereaved daughter as sausages for dinner).
Which was why when word got around at Awaji a couple of days before the Brazil game that the FA had decided to serve him up as their press conference interviewee of the day, a number of English journalists let out an anguished groan.
You could serve him up that checklist.
Then a Nicaraguan cocaine supplier and informant, Oscar Danilo Blandon, served him up on a silver platter to the feds.
What I had to do was act as a potential out-of-state buyer to set him up so he'd meet me and I could serve him up papers.
"There was a fraud case," Devine replied, "where I was trying to locate an individual to serve him up with a subpoena, and the individual was repeatedly using the internet to fleece the buyers of high-end cars".
Mr. Sweet — "such a small man, sometimes people mistook him for a rodent, he scurried around so" — fantasizes about butchering his son and serving him up poached or as a "saddle of Heracles with lemon and thyme" to his "overly well-fed" wife, "that horrible bitch who arrived on a banana boat".
