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  • n  a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
  • n  small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

  • But the writer, who bills herself in her biography as "a feminist and former shrew," says she nearly ruined her marriage to husband John, 44, by becoming a control freak .
  • The first shrew will eat the meat, the second shrew will eat the first, the third the second, etc.
  • The shrewthe animal namesake of bad-tempered womenis the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals.
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  • John Goodman in Reading Evening Post
    My daughter had seen The Taming of the Shrew performed in wild West style while she was on holiday,says John. "When she came back my other daughter was preparing for drama school auditions and she had a monologue from The Taming of the...

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