A room in the afterpart of a lower gun-deck for the accommodation of junior officers.
Gun Phrases.
He’s a great gun. A man of note.
Son of a gun. A jovial fellow.
Sure as a gun. Quite certain. It is as certain to happen as a gun to go off if the trigger is pulled.
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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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