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    "Nigger in the woodpile" or "nigger in the fence" is a figure of speech originating in the United States meaning "some fact of considerable importance...
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  • A Nigger in the Woodpile is a 1904 American silent film, with a runtime of four minutes. The title is derived from the idiom nigger in the woodpile, meaning...
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  • In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed toward black people. Starting in the 1990s, references to nigger have been increasingly replaced...
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  • colloquial term derived from nigger Nigger in the woodpile, an American figure of speech (late 19th-early 20th centuries) The Nigger of the Narcissus, an 1897 novel...
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    targets Ironic process theory ("Don't think of a pink elephant") Nigger in the woodpile – Expression indicating something suspicious or wrong Open secret –...
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    identity Elephant in the room, an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored or goes unaddressed Nigger in the woodpile (archaic) means...
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    of Tory MPs at the East India Club using the idiom "nigger in the woodpile", without any response from the other MPs present. Despite the number of members...
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  • after 'nigger in the woodpile' remark". The Telegraph. Prince, Rosa (9 July 2008). "David Cameron stands by 'nigger in the woodpile' peer". The Telegraph...
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    Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith (category Peers removed under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014)
    leader William Hague. In July 2008, he was forced to apologise to the chamber after using the racist idiom, "nigger in the woodpile", during a House of...
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  • And Then There Were None (category Novels set in the 1930s)
    references to the word from the book, as did the 1945 motion picture (except that the first US edition retained the phrase "nigger in the woodpile" in Chapter...
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  • term "a nigger in the woodpile". During the race, Porky runs his train over the top of a boat called the 'S.S Leon', a gag dedicated to the cartoon's...
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    Anne Marie Morris (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Devon)
    using the idiom "nigger in the woodpile" to describe the threat of leaving the EU without a deal, at the launch of a report into the future for the UK's...
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  • business, Trevor Matthews, used the racist phrase "nigger in the woodpile" while giving a presentation at one of the company's Edinburgh offices. After...
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    that, when they met in 2012, Andrew had commented, "Well, if you'll pardon the expression, that really is the nigger in the woodpile." Former home secretary...
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  • TV) The Nifty Nineties (1941) Nigakute Amai (2016) A Nigger in the Woodpile (1904) Night: (1930 & 2008) The Night: (1992 & 2020) The Night of the 12th...
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  • she was a circuit judge. In 1994, she used the racist phrase "nigger in the woodpile" in relation to two police officers in a summation to a Liverpool...
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  • Dumb Witness (category Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)
    mistakes on his part. Also in the audio book, the title of Chapter 18 is A Cuckoo in the Nest, changed from A Nigger in the Woodpile, in early texts. That change...
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    List of American films of 1904 (category 1904 in the United States)
    films released in 1904. 1904 in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1904 films of the United States. 1904 films at the Internet Movie...
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    Lincoln Alexander (category Canadian people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent)
    School in Toronto. While there, he suggested to the Dean during a lecture that he was using inappropriate language: "looking for a nigger in a woodpile". Challenging...
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    In the United Kingdom's 2017 general election, 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency...
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    Earl Johnson (August 24, 1886 in Gwinnett County, Georgia – May 31, 1965) was an old time fiddler who was influenced by the music of Gid Tanner and his...
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  • numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by...
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    Torquay Hotel Co Ltd v Cousins (category 1968 in United Kingdom case law)
    has come out into the open against us because we think he is the real nigger in the woodpile, preventing us from making progress." The newspaper reporters...
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  • Peckerwood (category White-supremacist organized crime groups in the United States)
    as "the Woodpile". Men in this group are called "peckerwoods" and women "featherwoods". The woodpecker is often used as a general symbol for the group...
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  • Banished (2007) The Banishing (2020) Banjo: (1947 & 2016) Banjo in My Knee (1936) Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979) Bank (2009) The Bank Dick (1940) The Bank Job...
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