Bear
Bear noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Both words in one sentence
- Happens more than once in Supernatural when a murder committed by an animalistic supernatural being like a wendigo or a werewolf is written off as a bear attack by the police.
Source: This Bear Was Framed -
Kim Komenich, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and professor foiled a bank robbery by wrapping the perp in a bear hug until police arrived.
Source: Bear Hug -
The gun was also empty, and Rorschach only kills criminals; crazy as he is, he doesn't bear ill will against police officers, and only fights them at all in order to escape.
Source: Doesn't Like Guns
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