/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Game’s Afoot (The)
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The hare has started; the enterprise has begun.
“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot!
Follow your spirit! And upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry! England! and St. George.’”
Shakespeare: Henry V., iii. 1.
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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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