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From Britain The evildoers in the Third Reich couldn't all have been hissing, predatory, nutsy Nazis; they needed the complicity, passive or active, of the "good Germans."

From Time Magazine Archive

"You fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.

From Aesop's Fables by Aesop

From early morning on the women have been hissing and steaming, bubbling and boiling over.

From Yiddish Tales by Various