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Japanese Incense burner in the form of a praying mantis, 19th century. Iron and gold with a lining of silver; height: 8.9 cm; length: 15.2 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jaded in Japan Very impressive. I am not sure what symbolic meaning it has.

I had no clue this was a thing. I thought it was slang. I used to hear old nautical terms a lot but TV and the web are slowly weeding out a lot of character in regional  speech.