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The following sentence is baffling me:

> 頭が腸捻転エビ固めモミ手返しを喰ったようで「明日にでも実家に帰らせて頂きマス」とか「私の前世は『枯野の宿』だった」とか口走りかねない。

I think I understand the ending (but please let me know if anything is
mistranslated):

> 「明日にでも実家に帰らせて頂きマス」とか「私の前世は『枯野の宿』だった」とか口走りかねない: It wasn't unlike me to blurt
> out things like, "May I go visit my parents tomorrow?" or " _Kareno no Yado_
> was my former life."

Is the beginning portion something to the effect of "While rubbing my hands
together and eating shrimp out of their shells..."?

Any help and insight you could provide me with would be very much appreciated!
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Help understanding 腸捻転エビ固めモミ手返し
I think it's basically a nonsense joke. 腸捻転エビ固めモミ手返し is his own made-up word
which just sounds like some [attack/move of professional
wrestling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_attacks).

  * 腸捻転【ちょうねんてん】: [volvolus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvulus) or "intestine twister" (I think there's no such attack in reality)
  * エビ固【がた】め: [逆エビ固め (boston crab)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%86%E3%82%A8%E3%83%93%E5%9B%BA%E3%82%81)
  * モミ手: hand-rubbing
  * 返し: counter-attack, counter-move

So it's something like "intestine-twisting boston-crab hand-rubbing counter-
attack", but each word is not really important.

喰う/食う in this context is "to take (an attack)".

His head was so confused as if he took this strange "attack", that he almost
said those meaningless sentences like 実家に帰ります/前世は宿だった.
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