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Brewer's: Queen's English
(The). Dean Alford wrote a small book on this subject, whence has arisen three or four phrases, such as “clipping the Queen's English,” “murdering the Queen's English,” etc. Queen's English means grammatical English.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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