“If you cut a branch out of my forests, I'd cut your head off!”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Aşıkpaşaoğlu History
“If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
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