Mad King Theodore

To find myself in the presence of Mad King Theodore was enough to turn my bowels to buttermilk . . .

Flashman on the March, p.190, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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The barrel of a rifle

. . . my bowels did a cartwheel as I saw that what his cane had become was the barrel of a rifle!


Flashman and the Tiger, p.306, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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Strange rhythms

      I forced myself to look unmoved down his barrel, with my bowels doing the polka — by God he was fast with a barker...


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.218, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Decamp, squeal, or betray

      It’s a remarkable thing (and I’ve traded on it all my life) that a single redeeming quality in a black sheep wins greater esteem than all the virtues in honest men—especially if the quality is courage. I’m lucky, because while I don’t have it, I look as though I do, and worthy souls like Carson and Wootton never suspect that I’m running around with my bowels squirting, ready to decamp, squeal, or betray as occasion demands.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.206, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Suit of armour

‘And a cutlass, of course,’ says he, ‘you’ll feel naked without that.’
      He little knew that I could feel naked in a suit of armour in the bowels of a dreadnought being attacked by an angry bum-boat-woman.

Flashman's Lady, pp.155-6, Pan edition, 1979.

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Grin and agree

Speaking from a safe distance, I can say it was a sound scheme. Hearing it proposed for the first time I thought it was fit to loosen the bowels of a bronze statue – but the hellish thing is, whatever a general suggests, you can do nothing but grin and agree.

Flashman in the Great Game, pp.277-8, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Flat on my back

I say ‘must have been’, for I knew nothing about it; the night we entered Lucknow my bowels began to explode in all directions, and before morning I was flat on my back with cholera, for the second time in my life.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.247, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Gut feeling

The man himself did nothing to set my bowels a-gallop…

Flash For Freedom!, p.168, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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