Both words in one sentence
- Who else found the way they'd changed "Like cutting off his balls" to "Like cutting off his -" followed by the sound of a very loud pruning shears to be a lot more painful than the uncensored line?
Source: Bowdlerise / Music -
Her first boyfriend "helps" her by periodically cutting them off with pruning shears.
Source: Freakiness Shame -
In Little Shop of Horrors, Seymour's excuse for having Band-Aids on all ten of his fingers (which he is cutting to feed Audrey Two): "Seems like every time I pick up a pruning shears, I slip."
Source: Cut Himself Shaving
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Pruning and Cutting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cutting/pruning
Cutting & Pruning. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cutting/pruning>.
Pruning or Cutting. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cutting/pruning.
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