- in the hay
- copulatingLiterally, in bed, from the days when your palliasse was filled with hay or straw:Tell me friend, what's she like in the hay? (Fraser, 1971)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.
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