A small carved wooden horse stands on folded sheets of gridded paper against a muted teal background.

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Sir August de Wynter

"John Steed." What a horse's arse of a name.

— The Avengers

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Repeating the name first sets up the insult that follows. Steed supplies the connection to a horse, which the speaker turns into a crude judgment of the whole name. The attack depends on that verbal association rather than an explanation of anything its owner has done.

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