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Pothooks

The 77th Foot; so called because the two sevens resemble two pothooks. Now called the Second Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. The first battalion is the old 57th.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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