A street cry during the Peninsular War, meaning, “Go it, ye cripples!” The Warwickshire militia, stationed at Hull, were more than ordinarily licentious and disorderly.
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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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