pig in a python
n.— «All very well for the bulge group, you may say. It will continue to dominate society as it passes through the decades like a pig through a python.» —“Pigs in a Python” by Russell Baker New York Times Magazine Apr. 21, 1974. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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