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      • Pig sticking was a British cavalry sport in India first attested in 1820 according to the OED. Cavalrymen armed with lances would hunt wild pigs and stick or spear them. It is not surprising that a pig speared in this way would squeal.
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    Several people have been credited with the phrase "squeal like a pig", the now-famous line spoken during the graphic rape scene. Ned Beatty said he thought of it while he and actor Bill McKinney (who played Beatty's rapist) were improvising the scene. [13]

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    Oct 1, 2024 · I bet you can squeal like a pig. He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he? Deliverance is a 1972 film about four suburban professional men from Atlanta, Georgia on a weekend canoe and camping trip into the dangerous Appalachian back-country.

  6. www.telegraph.co.uk › films › 0‘Squeal like a pig!’: the Deliverance scene that made – and ...

    Jun 14, 2021 · This is, of course, the legendary “squeal like a pig” sequence in John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), in which Beatty’s Bobby Trippe is forced to strip, humiliated and sodomised at gunpoint...

  7. owlcation.com › humanities › pig-idioms30 Pig Idioms and Phrases Explained - Owlcation

    Dec 15, 2023 · 4. Sweat Like a Pig. Meaning: That a person is sweating profusely. Example: "This heatwave is killing me. I'm sweating like a pig." Origin: The origin of this idiom is difficult to source. It is strange to include a pig's reference in this phrase, as pigs don't have any sweat glands and cannot perspire in this way.

  8. www.atlantamagazine.com › great-reads › deliveranceMountain Men: An Oral History of Deliverance - Atlanta Magazine

    Sep 1, 2011 · It’s near impossible to float down a river in Georgia without someone referencing Deliverance, usually exclaiming, in an exaggerated drawl, “Squeal like a pig!”

  9. www.ranker.com › list › the-best-deliverance-quotesThe Best Deliverance Movie Quotes (1972) - Ranker

    Jan 25, 2019 · Movie and TV Quotes. Updated January 25, 2019 21.3K views 13 items. The best Deliverance quotes make you realize how unsettling the movie really is, even if you haven't seen it in a while. Let's rank the greatest quotes from Deliverance, with the help of your votes.

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