A pithy simile for someone sin-sunk, cleverly playing on the double meanings of ‘raddle’. .Â
Soaked in sin like a sheep in raddle.Â
Source: Mary Webb, Precious Bane (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 174
Photo credit: Ian Stauffer at unsplash
A pithy simile for someone sin-sunk, cleverly playing on the double meanings of ‘raddle’. .Â
Soaked in sin like a sheep in raddle.Â
Source: Mary Webb, Precious Bane (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 174
Photo credit: Ian Stauffer at unsplash
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