The First World War was just that - a global conflict in which soldiers from six continents played their parts.
Men
huddling in trenches quickly spiced their conversation with foreign
words, dialect, rhyming slang, puns and new terms for the strange
conditions they found themselves in. When demobbed in 1918, they carried
their soldiers' lingo back into civilian life.
Some phrases that came out of those times are still with us. How many of these did you realise were WWI vintage?
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