Talk:Short-arm inspection

In case the 1911 Jung ref turns out to be a translation, the World War 1 Slang Glossary at Australian National University indicates that it was in use as far back as 1919. DS (talk) 17:40, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

There is a reference to "short-armed ignorance" in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (1603) in Act 2, Scene 3, line 15 (in the Signet edition of the play). In context, it is clearly a penis joke, and it is associated with syphilis five lines later, under the slang term "Neapolitan bone-ache." Macin504 (talk) 18:11, 31 October 2016 (UTC)