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General Funk

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A panic.

“The influence of ‘General Funkʹ was, at one time, far too prevalent among both the colonists and the younger soldiers.”—Montague: Campaigning in South Africa, chap. vi. (1880).

 

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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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