[Dragaera] I reviewed Hawk. :-/

[Philip Hart via Dragaera]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Mark Landin via Dragaera wrote:

> Or maybe "hamstring the yendi" is some figure of speech that has cultural
> significance, but isn't immediately clear to us non-Dragareans. Maybe read
> like "Sethra was supposed to jump the shark, but pulled up at the last
> second-deliberately".

If it's an idiom I would naively expect it to mean, "Try to do something 
impossible" or "make a spiteful pointless gesture".  Which would make its 
use in this context especially ironic.