In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MELURSUS
Melursus, genus Melursus
(noun) sloth bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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