Catching up...

[Dave Monroe]

The song "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" is a rock
and roll anthem from 1977, performed by Ian Dury & the
Blockheads.

The phrase has since entered the English language, but
also others as the German language. It employs the
rhetorical figure of a triad or hendiatris to capture
a certain lifestyle. ("Rock and roll" is here counted
as one concept, which itself is a dyad or hendiadys
referring to dance and sex; see Origins of rock and
roll).

It belongs to the wine, women and song family of
triads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_Drugs_and_Rock_and_Roll

Hendiatris (Greek for one through three) is a figure
of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are
used to express one idea.

For example, the phrase Wine, women and song uses
three words to capture one idea (which may be "to
party", or to adopt a certain lifestyle).

If the units involved are not single words, and if
they are not in any way synonyms but rather
"circumnavigate" the one idea expressed, the figure
may be more correctly, precisely, and expediently
described as a triad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendiatris

--- The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:

> Sex, drugs and rock and roll... Isn't that just an
> update on "Wine, women, and song?"

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