From a book I'm reading (describing childbirth):
"It felt like a vice gripping my stomach."
When I see the word "vice," I think smoking or some other evil thing, not a metal pinching device!
I did look it up, and "vice" is listed as an alternate to "vise," but why use "vice" when a perfectly good "vise" is waiting?
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I have no context for the sentence; however, a vice (smoking, etc.) can certainly have a grip on someone. If the author intended figurative language, I like it.
Wow, Anonymous. Good catch. It may have been deliberate. :-)
Shouldn't this be Criminal Sentence 462?
Thanks! Corrected!
As for the context, it was clearly a paragraph about the difficulties of giving birth and the pain she was in. I myself have been in that vise!
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