cursor dipped in X
<jargon> The metaphorical source of the electronic equivalent of a
poisoned-pen letter. Derived from English metaphors of the form "pen dipped in
X" (where X = e.g. "acid", "bile", "vitriol"). These map over neatly to this
hackish usage (the cursor being what moves, leaving letters behind, when one is
composing on-line).
"Talk about a nastygram! He must've had his cursor dipped in acid when he wrote
that one!"
[Jargon File]
(1996-12-27)
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