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The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.
But this was 400 years ago, so they roasted him to death instead.
If, say, his Medicare numbers don't add up, expect him to be roasted for it with a ferocity explicable only by reporters' frustration over what they perceive as the Big Lie about sex.
cat's paw to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an allusion to the story of a monkey that made use of a cat's paw to scratch a roasted chestnut out of the fire.
When Michael Crichton wrote a Japan-bashing film (and novel) back in 1993 called Rising Sun , critics roasted him for exploiting racial fears.
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