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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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To be of the whipped side of the isle
Hello,
could somebody, please, explain to me the above mentioned expression? I think it is an idiom.
"I thought that I first visit Wethersfield, Auburn and Sing Sing [prisons], whose different systems, all being of the whip side of the aisle, so to speak, would provide a firm basis of comparison with his Eastern Prison."
Thank you very much.
could somebody, please, explain to me the above mentioned expression? I think it is an idiom.
"I thought that I first visit Wethersfield, Auburn and Sing Sing [prisons], whose different systems, all being of the whip side of the aisle, so to speak, would provide a firm basis of comparison with his Eastern Prison."
Thank you very much.
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Note: whipped side of the isle is not the same as whip side of the aisle . This is a pure guess: all being of the whip side of the aisle means All of the three prison systems mentioned advocate the whipping of prisoners as part of their normal procedures (as opposed to those systems -- on the other side of the aisle -- which do not advocate it). Apparently the administrators of the Eastern Prison did not advocate the whipping of prisoners.
- Note: whipped side of the isle is not the same as whip side of the aisle .
- This is a pure guess: all being of the whip side of the aisle means All of the three prison systems mentioned advocate the whipping of prisoners as part of their normal procedures (as opposed to those systems -- on the other side of the aisle -- which do not advocate it).
- Apparently the administrators of the Eastern Prison did not advocate the whipping of prisoners.
- Let me repeat: This is a pure guess.
- My research on the term "whip side" led nowhere.
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Note: whipped side of the isle is not the same as whip side of the aisle.
This is a pure guess: all being of the whip side of the aisle means
All of the three prison systems mentioned advocate the whipping of prisoners as part of their normal procedures (as opposed to those systems -- on the other side of the aisle -- which do not advocate it).
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This is a pure guess: all being of the whip side of the aisle means
All of the three prison systems mentioned advocate the whipping of prisoners as part of their normal procedures (as opposed to those systems -- on the other side of the aisle -- which do not advocate it).
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AnonymousI thought that I first visit Wethersfield,seems incomplete -- is there something missing?
Where is the quote from? If it's contemporary, I doubt that any modern prisons whip their inmates. I have no idea what "whip side of the aisle" means, but maybe some more context would help.
Anonymousa firm basis of comparis
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