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As you know who would say, "Yet Another Rutting Tartarean?" So how about a phrase?
E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Catch a Tartar.
The biter bit. Grose says an Irish soldier in the Imperial service, in a battle against the Turks,
shouted to his comrade that he had caught a Tartar. “Bring him along, then,” said his mate. “But he
won’t come,” cried Paddy. “Then come along yourself,” said his comrade. “Arrah!” replied Paddy,
“I wish I could, but he won’t let me.”
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“We are like the man who boasted of having caught a Tartar, when the fact was that the
Tartar had caught him.”—Cautions for the Times.
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