英语词汇bottomley-s own的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bottomley-s own
词源	Bottomley’s Own. Surely the only army named for a writer. In 1916 author Horace Bottomley wrote an article for John Bull revealing that too many British armies were “rotting in En- gland” instead of fighting the Great War. The 12th London regi- ment had been encamped at home for a long time and was quickly dispatched to the front, soon becoming known as Bot- tomley’s Own.
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