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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

1. A famous quote by Muhammad Ali that he used to describe his fighting style. He was so quick on his feet that he practically danced around his opponents, but he packed a hard punch.

2. Can describe someone who is generally seen as nice but makes cutting remarks in an argument.
1. "Agility is as important as strength in boxing. Like Muhammad you gotta float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

2. "Anna is so sweet."
"Yeah, until you pick a fight with her. She floats like a buttetfly but stings like a bee."

float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

( invented by and physically applied to Muhammad Ali ):

A) an adjective to describe 'gentle giants'

B) describes, a politically active ( but not a politician) people who have a particular sense of 'political sarcasm' and matching wit' when they discuss politics on an intellectual level

C) describes very few professional politicians who use the particular sarcasm identified above to not mince words when they ' say what they mean' and ' mean what they say'
While the phrase float like a butterfly, sting like a bee can be theoretically applied definition a), to Muhammad Ali, it can also be applied , definition b) , to not only Muhammad Ali, but also simple politically conscious people like myself . Definition c) can be applied not only to myself and Muhammad Ali ( to the extent that Muhammad Ali and I were never politicians) but should rarely epitomize, whereb it's deserved, professional politicians like Vladimir Putin who don't mince words when they speak, using definition b) instead to ' say what they mean' and ' mean what they mean'

float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

(-muhammed ali) the easily imagined capabilities of a fine looking woman as regards to sex skills
man, i bet dollars to doughnuts (like that phrase??) that bitch could float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Float like a butterfly sting like a bee

Could of been a boxer over a bee,

Lost his stinger,

Floating like a butterfly fly,
Lost his ability to move
Float like a butterfly sting like a bee, why lie

float like a bee, sting like a butterfly 

what you thought was the famous quote but since you are an idiot you got the things mixed up
A friend told me to float like a bee, sting like a butterfly.
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