Wait, What?
According to Matthew Cooper of MSNBC, Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter just said someone ought to “snatch a knot” in Lisa Murkowski’s (or perhaps the Senate in general’s?) ass:
No one in the FiveThirtyEight newsroom was familiar with that particular phrase. But according to an Urban Dictionary post from 2005, it’s a real thing. The site’s definition:
To hit someone, usually used in a threat of punishment or retribution. A knot is generally snatched in one’s ass, though variants include the neck and the head.[Editor’s Note: Health care expert and former rural Virginian Anna Maria Barry-Jester clarifies that she was in fact familiar with this phrase.]