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28 January
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What does your words leave me pitch - kettled. what does"pitch kettled"mean? mean?
What does your words leave me pitch - kettled. what does"pitch kettled"mean? mean?
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It means to be puzzled, confounded, confused, perplexed.
It’s a sort of Shakespearean way of saying that something/one is being covered as if with a pitch-kettle, thus being cast into helpless darkness.
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