Wire Wool

I think that you should strip the skin from your arms, legs and breasts with a blunt, rusty cheese-grater; you should then go and have a bath in salt making sure to rub it well into your flayed limbs and tits and then, whilst still screaming loudly, you should give yourself three hundred papercuts all over your genitals and then scrub then with wire-wool dipped in lemon juice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He ducked into the tent and shook himself like a dog, shedding layers of snow, then pulled back the hood to uncover wire-wool ginger hair flecked with gray and a beaming, florid face mottled with large freckles. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)

Each breath was painful, full of bee-stings and wire-wool. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1974)

No map could guide you through this darkness - not even the stars as they collide into nations of foreign patterns, wire-wool tight and baffling as kanji. ❋ Itfc1959 (2010)

And now, watch as Reid puts the boot into the Lib-Lab pact, whilst I go and scrub myself with wire-wool ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

(If you've still got them, I know a trick with some hot water and a bit of wire-wool that works a treat.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

For "Road to Reason", a funky thrash of wire-wool guitar and frantic theremin, Thomas reverts to his trademark bubblegum baby voice to observe with satisfaction, "Everywhere you look you can see burned down houses and people bent double under the weight of Finance." ❋ Stephen Rylance (2009)

I think that you should strip the skin from your arms, legs and breasts with a blunt, rusty cheese-grater; you should then go and have a bath in salt (making sure to rub it well into your flayed limbs and tits) and then, whilst still screaming loudly, you should give yourself three hundred papercuts all over your genitals and then scrub then with wire-wool dipped in lemon juice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

­pantomime dames with wire-wool hair; a couple wearing joke-shop masks. ❋ Adrian Searle (2010)

“I’m sorry, [Rach], he’s got you by [the wire] [wool] as far as shopping him” ❋ GenerationDarby (2019)