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Swearing at everybody and everything.
“Whin a bad egg is shut av the army, he says the devil’s mass … . anʹ manes svearinʹ at ivrything, from the commandher-in-chief down to the room-corpʹril.”—Soldiers Three, p. 95.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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