twist one’s cap back
v. phr.— «If anything, I really feel sorry for the journalists in the room. Can you imagine having your cap twisted back by a person that makes their living parodying you? It’s like that tom when Dom from Rusted Shut got a nomination for best musician in Houston.» —“Vacation de-flation round 1: Ladies Love Cool Jones” Yatsushiro Radio (Kyushu, Japan) May 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
As noted in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (Bookshop|Amazon), the term red rag, also redrag, is an old slang term for “the tongue,” as in the quotation he cites with a variant spelling of potato: Shut...
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