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Pompo-Verbosity & other Figurative Lingos
As in: ' Not tonight, darling , Ive got a headache. ' The classic excuse, now a cliché, to avoid unwanted sexual activity with one's spouse or regular partner . Now widely used as a jesting catchphrase to avoid doing something, anything, with someone, a best-friend or a spouse . (By the way , sex relieves tension.)