Sentence examples for the cuss from inspiring English sources
It's the king of the cuss words.
One afternoon, Ethel Merman visited the set and was told of the cuss box.
In Clueless, Cher Horowitz mocks a group of rival peers in the mall with the cuss "Could they please be more generic?" – for generic in 1995, read basic in 2015.
The excerpt from Fox About Town, Mr Fox's newspaper column, contains a nice piece of foreshadowing: "I have never crossed paths with an English wolf, but pardon my French they scare the cuss out of me.
They still swear around the baby (the cuss words are deleted), but they stop smoking and boozing and do a remarkably good job of balancing her career as a talk show producer and his status as a stay-at-home father.
The joke is that, for all of Byck's wildly over-the-top rhetoric -- it's difficult to quote much of this or the McNally, given all the cuss words -- had Lenny stuck to Broadway, as Mr. Sondheim did, he might be regarded now primarily as a great composer.
Top tip? Curb the cussing!
In our family, the cussing tutorials had come largely from Dan.
The solution: impose a "buddy" system, then pair the cussing student with the Student Who Immediately Gets Lost.
His routine is the best shaped, and in his hands the cussing isn't tiresome.
Take away the accents and the cussing, and it could just as easily be Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson talking.
