- like being savaged by a dead sheep
- Meaning
Origin
Said by combative UK Labour politician Dennis Healey when verbally attacked by the mild mannered Tory minister Geoffrey Howe.
Meaning and origin of phrases. 2013.
like being savaged by a dead sheep
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