Who said the beast with two backs

Install the app. Forums English Only English Only. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. The beast with two backs. Thread starter shipwrecked Start date Aug 19, I thought the same when he said this sentence for the first time.

But, no. He was sincere. He made a great actress of her. Click to expand It isn't used very often in modern English, at least not in the U. Victoria32 Senior Member New Zealand.

English UK New Zealand. Germany German, English, Spanish. But why a beast with two backs , does anybody know?

Why should this have a sexual connotation? JamesM said:. King of France. Soon after the Peace of Vervins [cf. However if he had her to himself it would not be so much; but she is devilishly belyed, Master, if she does not play the Beast with two Backs with some others. The Edict of Nantes, which defined the rights of French Protestants, was signed the same year.

Sadler—it out-beasts all the Menageries of the Kingdom! Grandgousier — illustration for the third chapter of La vie treshorrificque du grand Gargantua, pere de Pantagruel :. Hooper, , by the English antiquary and lexicographer Francis Grose : Beast with two backs, a man and woman in the act of copulation. Like this: Like Loading Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments