The man-mouse taken in a trap

...looseness, and has such squirts of the mouth, his readers cannot distinguish his breath from his backside original: "Breech" - the buttocks; the author is suggesting the opponent's speech is indistinguishable from flatulence.. He is a new kind of Pythonist original: "Pythonist" - historically, a person possessed by a spirit or a soothsayer like the Oracle of Delphi. Here, it implies he speaks nonsense under a strange influence.; he speaks no man knows what, and his blunders original: "Bulls" - a term for a ridiculous, self-contradictory blunder or a nonsensical statement. have much of his belly in them. But I have studied a cure answerable to his disease. I have been somewhat corrosive original: "Corrosive" - in early medicine, a "corrosive" was a caustic substance used to eat away dead or diseased flesh., and in defiance of the old proverb original: "Phrase" - referring to the ancient proverb "to wash an Ethiope white," meaning to attempt an impossible or thankless task., I have washed a Moor clean. I have put his pig-head original: "Hog-noddle" - a derogatory term for a stupid or thick-headed person.