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Ka Hoerschaf Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

trip around the horn

Hello once again,

what does a trip around the horn means, when somebody is not talking about travelling?
How can I understand it in any other way?

Thanks for helping!
  

Top answer

The journey around Cape Horn was very long, and was a very indirect route for getting somewhere. So even if it's used in a figurative sense, it carries one of those meanings.

— Jenny Gray

  • The journey around Cape Horn was very long, and was a very indirect route for getting somewhere.
  • So even if it's used in a figurative sense, it carries one of those meanings.
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The journey around Cape Horn was very long, and was a very indirect route for getting somewhere. So even if it's used in a figurative sense, it carries one of those meanings.
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If it is used to describe something between two people ... could this be used in a sexual way ?.used as an idiom?
Sorry to ask such a question, but I´m not sure, if I do understand the whole context.
Thank you!!
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Almost anything can be used in a sexual way if your mind is dirty and/or creative enough, but it's not a standard idiom regarding any sexual acts thath I know of. You could consult Urban Dictionary.
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Thanks for answering :-)
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Grammar Geek is correct that it's not a well-known sexual idiom. I can imagine what it probably means, though! Because this isn't a common use of this phrase, I don't think it will be on Urban Dictionary. If you think of the shape of an animal's horn, like a rhino's horn, it's similar to the male genitalia. Some people think that the slang term "*****" come from this fact.

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