Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]

Obnubilaʹtion…A dazzling of the eyes without giddiness, so that objects seem to be seen through a cloud, as in threatened fainting.

Clearly the producers of “The Producers” were so little inclined to tinker with a winning formula that they chose not to excise a few lines of dialogue to accommodate the svelter physique of their new leading man, preposterous though it is that anyone in a fit of pique would deride a fellow as “once-husky.”

your high mightinesses; your noble mightinesses