Eats Shoots and Leaves. ~ AnnaS

Very topical!

I'm not quite sure which sense you're taking though, given the punctuation you've used makes it seem more like 'root hog and die anyway' if 'leaves' is a euphemism for 'dies'. Segueing naturally on to thinking about 'receive life, give life, leave life' perhaps 'eats, shoots and leaves' would be close after all. Then again, there's the Oz slang use of the term 'root'...

This public musing isn't taking me anywhere...