Sweetest tabu (?)

[nq:1]Hi. Is "Sweetest tabu" a common phrase?[/nq]
No more than any other combination of adjective and noun. It has no specific idiomatic meaning beyond what the two words connote.
[nq:1]In what context can it be used?[/nq]
Any in which it accurately describes what is being written or spoken about. It verges on oxymoron-hood, so there probably aren't many such contexts. In what context

More or less a synonym for "forbidden fruit," I'd say.

It's in a song lyric by Sade. See if you can figure out what she's talking about, probably something they'd arrest you for in Texas:

http://all-lyrics.boom.ru/S/Sade - The Sweetest Taboo.html #begin quote
Sade Lyrics / Sade - The Sweetest Taboo
Album: Promise (1985)
If I tell you
If I tell you n

[nq:1] I heard Clinton buried a time capsule at his new presidental library sized like an overseas shipping container filled ... cigars, and the unabridged version of his autobiography. That last one was touch and go just getting the ****** in.[/nq]
Yo buddy, the Exocet is an anti-ship missle not a sam and the U.Sdoes not use exocets anyway.

raymond o'hara typed thus:
[nq:2] I heard Clinton buried a time capsule at his ... one was touch and go just getting the ****** in.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yo buddy, the Exocet is an anti-ship missle not a sam and the U.Sdoes not use exocets anyway.[/nq]
Purely in the interests of spreading a little knowledge, I can impart that being a French weapon, the Exocet has a French name, which is, er, Exoc

"the Omrud" > Purely in the interests of spreading a little knowledge, I can impart
[nq:1]that being a French weapon, the Exocet has a French name, which is, er, Exocet. Which means "flying fish". Those ... the puns in Asterix and the cartoons in Paris Match will recognise this as one of the funnier French jokes.[/nq]
The pun that is Asterix's name is lost on most of my fellow countryme

[nq:1]Hi. Is "Sweetest tabu" a common phrase?[/nq]
No.
[nq:1]In what context can it be used?[/nq]
I've no idea.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:1]"the Omrud" > Purely in the interests of spreading a little knowledge, I can impart[/nq]
[nq:2]that being a French weapon, the Exocet has a French ... will recognise this as one of the funnier French jokes.[/nq]
[nq:1]The pun that is Asterix's name is lost on most of my fellow countrymen. too bad too, it's great stuff.[/nq]
I've been struggling to recall an old limerick, the l

Don Groves:
[nq:1]I've been struggling to recall an old limerick, the last line of which is, "she only has her asterisk."[/nq]
I dunno, but this made me think of a comic poem whose last line was "her little *" (to be pronounced "her little asterisk"). That's not enough syllables for a limerick's last line, so I'm thinking it's a different poem. Anyway, I googled for the phrase using "aster

[nq:2] I heard Clinton buried a time capsule at his ... one was touch and go just getting the ****** in.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yo buddy, the Exocet is an anti-ship missle not a sam and the U.Sdoes not use exocets anyway.[/nq]
I expect that you took the rest of the paragraph seriously as well. Hello: None of it is serious. The whole thing is a joke culminating in me making fun of Clinton's verbose sty