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by Magenta on June 26th, 2007
From this guy I used to go out with.
You don't want to know the details.
by Jewel on June 27th, 2007
Probably from some really pissed off guy who wanted the object of his ire to stop talking and also to eat, or swallow, his/her words. I was really angry once at a loud mouthed idiot and he wouldn't shut up. I grew more and more angry. I had to fight the impulse to grab him by the throat with one hand and ram my fist down his throat to make him stop spewing his hateful words.
I actually just walked away and divorced him soon after. But I still think a situation like this is what started that saying. Don't you?
by Mr n Mrs M... on June 26th, 2007
From Bob Blaylocks autobiography "My way or the Highway"
by leflynn99 on February 25th, 2010
A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
Bolus -- medicine
force something down
to force oneself to swallow something. I can't stand sweet potatoes, but I manage to force them down just to keep from making a scene. She forced down the sweet potatoes.
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