revolving son of a bitch
n.— «Scatophagous Reinhart, the traitor, the Oedipus Rex, the fornicator of infants, the defiler of graves, the double-barreled international bastard and revolving son of a bitch.» —by Thomas Berger Crazy in Berlin June, 1958. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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