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Show To "Swear Like a Trooper" So popular has this expression become be-come through the centuries that w are likely to accept It as a general allusion to the usually unmalden-like unmalden-like speech of soldiers without wondering whether It might not im- j mortallze the speech of some particular par-ticular troopers In the world's hls- 1 tory. The fact Is that the phrase was originally "to swear like a trooper in Flanders," an allusion to the habits acquired by the English Eng-lish troops In Flanders. The simile comes to us from Richardson's "Pamela," "Pa-mela," which dates 1741. |