Lice nittle clinkers

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  • nice little → spoonerism
  • lice
  • nit: a louse egg
  • Humphrey Clinker’s Expedition: a novel by Tobias Smollett → smolt = a salmon
  • clinkers: faecal deposits in anal hair
  • clinker: one who clinches the argument → Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift: “A Protestant’s a special clinker"