Biting Remark(A ). A remark more biting than Zeno's. Nearchos ordered Zeno the philosopher to be pounded to death in a mortar. When he had been pounded some time, he told Nearchos he had an important secret to communicate to him; but, when the tyrant bent over the mortar to hear what Zeno had to say, the dying man bit off his ear. “That would have been a biting jest.” Shakespeare: Richard III., act ii. 4. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Biting Remark from Infoplease:
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