centipede

Noun

Meaning

chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? "And here is my good big centipede!" If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. William S. Burroughs

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. Mukesh Ambani

If a centipede loses a leg, it does not prevent him from walking. Senegalese Proverb

A bitter centipede if eaten in a pleasing berry pie will taste sweet. Polish Proverb

A centipede will not stop for a cripple. Thai Proverb

As they fight, they're interrupted by a centipede demon, a nice callback to the start of Kagome's adventure in the original The centipede demon is after something -- rainbow pearls. Source: Internet

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