fifty-stone

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The longest recorded number two took four whole days to deliver. It was by fifty-stone opera tenor Antonio Lasagnotti. It was the length of a football pitch.
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What is fifty-stone? Since this is a children book with pretty much everything made up, I suspect this is also a made up term. But for the life of me, I just can't picture what an opera singer must look like to be described as being "fifty-stone."

Source: Bad Dad - David Walliams - eBook
 
    • "Fifty stones" would be seven hundred pounds. Whether or not the author is exaggerating there's no question about what is meant.
     
    Stone is a unit of weight - so the tenor weighs 700 pounds.
    1. ( pl stone) BRIT a unit of weight, used esp to express human body weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.350 kilograms
     
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