[A toad-eater] is a metaphor taken from a mountebank's boy who eats toads in order to show his master's skill in expelling poison.... It is built on a supposition (which I am afraid is too generally true) that people who are so unhappy as to be in a state of dependence are forced to do the most nauseous things that can be thought on to please and humor their patrons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciou...sness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now your beer belly hangs outlike Fatso. You are popping your buttons and expelling gas.... How can I lie down with you, my comical beau when you are so middle-aged and lower-class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »