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Dogs (a military term)

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The 17th Lancers or Duke of Cambridge’s Own Lancers. The crest of this famous cavalry regiment is a Death’s Head and Cross-bones, OR GLORY, whence the acrostic Death Or Glory (D.O.G.).

The Spartan injunction, when the young soldier was presented with his shield, was, “With this, or On this,” which meant the same thing.

 

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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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Dog-Latin
Dog-leech (A)
Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)
Dog-star
Dog-vane (A)
Dog-watch
Dog-whipper (A)
Dog-whipping Day
Dogs (a military term)
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs (Green)
Dogs-ears
Dogs-meat
Dog’s-nose
Dogged
Dogged
Dogaressa (g = j)
Dogberry

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