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In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.
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Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
The latest environmental measure that has people grumbling is a two-year ban on fishing for omul, a smoked delicacy hawked by fishwives all around the lake.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
—Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016
Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
The latest environmental measure that has people grumbling is a two-year ban on fishing for omul, a smoked delicacy hawked by fishwives all around the lake.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
—Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016
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“Fishwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fishwife. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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