motto-bedecked

Updated: May 27, 2025

It means being elbowed by a lot of English-slaying mendicants in a motto-bedecked saloon, where every bite at the Presbyterian fowl seems a confession of faith that that particular gobbler, or hen, as the case may be, was fore-ordained, before the beginning of time, to be chewed by yourself or eschewed, should you decline it. Somehow theology takes the zest out of the cranberries for me.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches