| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Biting Remark | Literature | 1: (A). A remark more biting than Zeno's. Nearchos ordered Zeno the philosopher to be pounded to death in a mortar. When he had been pounded some time, he told Nearchos he had an important secret to communicate to him; but, when the tyrant bent over the mortar to hear what Zeno had to say, the dying man bit off his ear. 2: Shakespeare: Richard III., act ii. 4. 3: "That would have been a biting jest." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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