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The last word in a body, a parliament, and a steak — always what's left behind.
means The rump is the hind part or buttocks of an animal (or person), and by extension the small remnant left over after most of something is gone.
from From Middle English, borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare Old Norse 'rumpr' and the modern Danish and German 'Rumpf,' meaning trunk or carcass. It started as a plain word for the hindquarters of a beast, then crept into the butcher's stall as 'rump steak.' The figurative 'leftover bit' sense was sealed in the 17th century by the 'Rump Parliament,' the scornful nickname for the sitting members left behind after others were purged — literally what remained when the body had been cut down.
- parliament
- England's Rump Parliament ruled after most members were purged
- steak cut
- Sits above the hip, prized for lean flavor
- old root
- From Norse, meaning trunk or tail end
- figurative
- A rump is any remaining fraction of a whole
- birds too
- A bird's rump feathers sit just before the tail
rump parliament — english parliament that sat 1649-1653 after pride's purge removed royalist members during the civil war
rump steak — cut of beef from the hindquarters, standard butcher cut worldwide