Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.302
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.302
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The phrase has been thoroughly naturalised in England since the days of Dryden and Pope. [The earliest quotation for “running amuck” in the N.E.D. is from Marvell (1672).]