Government Men
. “[He] had always been a hard-working man … good at most things, and, like a lot more of the Government men, as the convicts were called, … had saved some money.”—Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, chap. i.
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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.