Cat-o'-nine-tails in a sentence as a noun

] Obviously, the only way to get a message of disapproval into such an obtuse skull is via the nine whipcord communications lines of the Home Office cat-o'-nine-tails through the flesh of his shoulders and nerves up to his selfish, destructive, jungle brain. Mm, the old anecdote + proof by obviousness.

We go on to treble the damages by repeating this freak letter, this monstrosity that is one thing, claims to be two other things, but is really three things, not once, not twice, but a full three times, in a nonometric rhapsody fleshed out to the nines, a compound triplicate triumphant cat-o'-nine-tails tongue-lashing, a nonotuple witches' syllabic brew of treble, treble, toil and trouble. \nIt is enough I say!

Cat-o'-nine-tails definitions

noun

a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"