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What is "a mushroom tied to a string"? I've never heard that colloquialism before, but it's hilarious.

All I got with a google search was some stock photos.

It's a euphemism for genitalia. My inner circle uses it to refer to something that has become a joke of itself.

Thank you for posting your obscure in-jokes on a reasonably public forum.

Thank you for publicly complaining about a completely-obvious-from-context idiom so sassily

It's not obvious at all. At least not from the context alone. I'm not even sure how you cam up with that idiom, nor which sex's genitalia it's supposed to look like.

> Sad to know that Merkel has made Germany into a mushroom tied to a string.

> Sad to know that Merkel has made Germany into a silly joke.

any child could figure that out, especially considering the tone of the comment already set with 'benjamin' why are you posting

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