Brewer's: Dirty Shirts

(The). The 101st Foot, which fought at Delhi in their shirt-sleeves (1857). Now called “The Royal Bengal Fusileers.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Related Content