any hole's a goal

English

Etymology

Chosen for the rhyme.

Pronunciation

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Proverb

any hole 's a goal

(UK, vulgar) Any receptive sex partner (or orifice) is acceptable.
- 2015, J.S. Law, The Dark Beneath‎^[1], →ISBN, page 19:
  See, I don't really like screwing men, although any hole's a goal and all that, but women are soft and smooth and weak and small. They're easy to grab, easy to control.
- 2018, Emma Newman, A Split Worlds Omnibus: Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name, and All Is Fair‎^[2], page 94:
  “Probably because you were only thinking about one thing.” She smothered her own thoughts and feelings as she took on the necessary role. “That's what men are like, right? Any hole's a goal?”
- 2020, Vanessa Morse, “There's Something about Gabby”, in Daddies Explicit... Anthology‎^[3], page 594:
  "Of course I knew that it all goes to the same place," she beamed back at him. "I can't believe how nice you are to me. I mean you're right, my throat really has been getting pretty sore lately, and any hole's a goal." She had no idea what this meant, but it sounded like the right thing to say.
- 2021, Kerry Louise Stalker, Life, One Big Existential Crisis, page 69:
  Being a virgin is not cool (the cool people are not virgins). I heard at my secondary school, that kids get battered if they're a virgin. Sexual promiscuity, for the most part, elicits a positive peer response. Any hole's a goal. Britain has more sexually active under-18s than any other country in Europe. We also have the highest number of teenage mothers and the highest teenage abortion rate in Western Europe.

Translations

Finnish: reikä mikä reikä
French: un trou c’est un trou (literally “a hole's a hole”)
Polish: no equivalent term in Polish
Portuguese: em tempos de guerra qualquer buraco é trincheira
Spanish: en tiempos de guerra cualquier agujero es trinchera