📚 noun • entry_id 60258
Chinese water torture
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gota china
A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained.
It has come to be known as Chinese water torture, but was actually invented by a sixteenth-century Italian lawyer named Hippolytus de Marsiliis.
The plunk of the keys was beginning to feel like Chinese water torture, each note a painful drip. Is that a real thing? Chinese water torture, I mean.
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