Stephen Moore

Under the Trump tax plan, we are no longer going to subsidize big government in blue states. Now those who choose to live in blue states are going to have to join with their neighbors, collect their pitchforks, and demand tax and spending cuts from city hall and the state capital.

American Writer

Sylvia Earle

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

American Scientist

Haniel Long

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

American Author

Cenk Uygur

The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.

Turkish Lawyer

Gord Downie

We used to tie a skipping rope to a pitchfork and try to spear big carp. We never got one. My kids love that story, very 'Lord of the Flies.

Canadian Musician

Keanu Reeves

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Canadian Actor

Horace

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Roman Poet

Tab Hunter

I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!

American Actor

Parker Posey

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

American Actress

Pitchfork often evokes images of rural life, farming, or agriculture in literature and conversation.

Rural Imagery

Using a pitchfork is seen as hard manual labor, and can be a metaphor for hard work in general.

Labor Intensive

A pitchfork can symbolize rural or traditional lifestyles, often contrasting with modern urban life.

Cultural Symbol

In computing, a pitchfork icon isn't for editing content but for selecting or moving elements.

User Interface

The pitchfork in computing is specialized vocabulary, not commonly understood outside technical fields.

Technical Context

To pitchfork something is to physically move it with the tool; it's a verb of action.

Physical Action

The verb 'pitchforked' can imply someone was pushed into a situation abruptly and without preparation.

Abrupt Change

When used metaphorically, 'pitchforked' doesn't involve a real pitchfork but indicates a sudden situation.

Metaphoric Use

 One woman said that getting to know him was “like running against a pitchfork.” Cope, on the other hand, was charismatic and given to bold theorizing. But he was also sarcastic and temperamental. By his own admission, he wasn’t “constructed for getting along comfortably with the general run of people.”

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 into the electoral college, into Congress, he didn't try to discredit the results in the press. Frankly, he didn't send his supporters out into the streets with protest signs or pitchforks or long guns. As soon as the court said the vote count is done,

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 buys sells and stockpiles whatever he can find the mix hoping he's got something that can help corner his suspect however one of these Mick you got a pitchfork you know you put her upside down he falls that would make an

Pitchfork

Rural Imagery

Labor Intensive

Cultural Symbol

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