Lice nittle clinkers

• nice little → spoonerism

• lice

• nit: a louse egg

• Humphrey Clinker’s Expedition: a novel by Tobias Smollett

• clinkers: faecal deposits in anal hair

• clinker: cf. Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift: “A Protestant’s a special clinker (=one who clinches the argument)”