Brief mention: “You onion-peel so slowly”

Said by character Dani Santino to character Nico Careles in the episode “V3 for Vendetta” (7/17/13) of the cable tv series Necessary Roughness. Taking the two-part back-formation to onion-peel into new, figurative, territory. We start with the synthetic compound onion-peeling, with onion undersood as the direct object of the verb peel. From that we get … Continue reading Brief mention: “You onion-peel so slowly”