Swear Like A Trooper Definition & Meaning

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swear like a trooper Idioms

1. Freely utter profanity or obscenity, as in The teacher was shocked when she heard one of the fathers begin to swear like a trooper. The troopers in this term were the cavalry, who were singled out for their swearing from the early 1700s on.

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And playing me – or the chancellor – is the remarkable Paul Higgins, who himself spent some time in seminary thinking about the priesthood, and who also demonstrated his capacity to swear like a trooper as Jamie, the other ferocious spin-doctor in The Thick of It.

From The Guardian

Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family.

From Time Magazine Archive

At any rate she's a great man of a woman; can swear like a trooper if things don't go right.

From Project Gutenberg

At a recent dinner at Cambridge, Professor Humphry, who came to Cambridge to commence what has been a brilliant career by a journey on the "Star" coach, lightly hit off Joe Walton, the driver of the "Star," as a man who "used to swear like a trooper and go regularly to Church."

From Project Gutenberg

Therefore I grumble and swear like a trooper, but at the same time I gradually withdraw, so that she has full liberty.

From Project Gutenberg

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