Shirley Jones

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

American Actress

Rodney Dangerfield

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

American Comedian

Tommy Cooper

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?

British Comedian

Aisha Tyler

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

Marco Pierre White

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

British Chef

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Iraqi Public Servant

Hong Chau

Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names.

Carson Daly

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

American Entertainer

Voltaire

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

French Writer

Konrad Adenauer

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

German Statesman

Refers to the profession linked with preparing meats, often seen in markets.

Job Specific

In some cultures, butchers are associated with artisanal skills and traditions.

Cultural Image

Used to describe someone cruel, it carries a strongly negative emotional weight.

Negative Connotation

Can reference historical figures known for brutality in wars or conflicts.

Historical Context

Suggests ruining an opportunity due to poor performance or lack of skill.

Performance-Based

This figurative use is casual and usually used in an informal context.

Colloquial Use

Often used by farmers or in rural settings where raising animals is common.

Farm Context

Used informally to express that someone made a mess of things or failed badly.

Informal Criticism

Implies a severe, often shocking level of violence or killing.

Severity

Used in news or history to report mass killings or atrocities in conflicts.

Conflict Report

 There's going to be spilling of blood. This is meat-only diet traditionally. The only thing you can maybe eat are berries in summer that is non-meat, berries and a bit of seaweed, but otherwise you survive on meat, that's all. And so it means, you're the hunter, but you're the butcher. Everybody, all the hunters they know how to butcher their meat.

We Are What We Eat:...

 my wife tasked me to cook more for us. And whenever I'd go to the local butcher to purchase some halal meat, something felt off. For those that don't know, halal is a term used for meat that is raised and slaughtered humanely following very strict Islamic guidelines.

Bassam Tariq: The beauty...

 skittering about their feet is one of the smaller workers lined like the others and just three millimeters long she's a general helper who can do any job from butchering to building to cleaning all three types cooperate to carry push or pull their prey along the

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 And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom, which might have been all right except that this particular single mom was a paranoid schizophrenic, and when Will was five years old, she tried to kill him with a butcher knife.

Lessons from death row...

 The holy man Black Elk, said, "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch,

Aaron Huey: America's...

 stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed by the range of thoughtful responses from a butcher shop to a nursery from a

Redefining how we use...

 the holy man Black Elk said I did not know then how much was ended when I looked back now from this high hill of my old age I can still see the butchered

America's native...

 crop circles appear around the world but the large majority are found in butcher a small corner of southwest England

Crop Circle Mystery PIPE...

 inside the defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost

Ferocious Hornet Moments...

 defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost to the

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