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(Greek > Latin: butter; from bou[s] , "ox, cow" plus tyro[s], "cheese")
(Latin: cheese)
(Greek: cheese)
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
This entry is located in the following unit: paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia (page 6)
tyrotoxicosis, cheese poisoning
Illness resulting from ingestion of tyrotoxicon (poisonous compound found in contaminated cheese and other milk products).

Symptoms are nausea, vomiting, dizziness, severe epigastral pain, dilated pupils, numbness of the limbs, prostration, and possible death.