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Brewer's: Devil's Own
(CONNAUGHT BOYS.) The 88th Foot. So called by General Picton from their bravery in the Peninsular War, 1809-1814.
Applied also to the Inns of Court Volunteers, the members of which are lawyers.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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