# (6) 06 Apr 2008, 10:29PM: 19th Century Slang Help Request:
I'm reading Trollope's autobiography and need help understanding this passage:
What's a "metropolitan moon"? Ever since I heard that you can anagram "subtext" to "butt sex" I feel slightly more foolish for assuming things I don't understand are about sex, but -- is this about sex?
The [clerical] critic, however, had been driven to wrath by my saying that Deans of the Church of England loved to revisit the glimpses of the metropolitan moon.
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