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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

CryGod for Harry! England! and St. George.ʹ”


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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Gam
Gama (g hard)
Gamaheu
Gamaliel
Gamboge
Game
Game
Game-leg
Game for a Spree
Game is not worth the Candle (The)
Game’s Afoot (The)
Gamelyn
Gammer (g hard)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Gammon (g hard)
Gammut, or Gamut (g hard)
Gamp (Mrs.)
Gamps and Harrises
Ganabim
Gander (g hard)
Gander-cleugh

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