Brewer's: Out in the Forty-five

—i.e. in the rebel army of the Young Pretender, in 1745 (George II.). (Howitt : History of England, vol. iv. p. 506.)

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