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the unsung shell that takes the hit so the precious insides don't have to
means The outer protective covering or shell of something — like the skin around a sausage, the frame around a doorway, or the housing that encloses a mechanism.
from From "case" plus the noun-forming "-ing." "Case" in this sense comes from Old French "casse" (a box or container), itself from Latin "capsa," a chest or holder — the same root that gives us "capsule." So a casing is literally a little box grown into a verb-shaped noun: the thing that does the enclosing.
- sausage origin
- Originally cleaned animal intestines stuffed with meat
- oil drilling
- Steel pipe lining wells to stop collapse
- bullet remains
- The empty shell ejected after firing
- casing crew
- Detectives reading window peeks call it casing the joint
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