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Carry Arms!

Hold your gun in the right hand, the barrel nearly perpendicular, and resting against the hollow of the shoulder, the thumb and forefinger embracing the guard. (A military command.) (See Carry Swords.)

 

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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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Carpe Diem
Carpenter
Carpet
Carpet-bag Adventurer (A)
Carpet-bag Government
Carpet Knight
Carpocratians
Carriage Company
Carriages
Carronades
Carry Arms!
Carry Coals
Carry Everything before One (To)
Carry Fire in one Hand and Water in the other (To)
Carry One’s Point (To)
Carry Out (To)
Carry out one’s Bat (To)
Carry Swords!
Carry the Day (To)
Carry Weight (To)
Cart before the Horse

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