He's not dead, he's resting

“Think you’re safe, don’t you, because mortuo leoni et lepores insultant,* is that it?”



*The lion being dead, even hares can insult him





Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.40, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Thank'ee Sir Henry

…plainly Flashy would get no credit either; my work with Lal and Tej would be conveniently forgotten. Well thank’ee Sir Henry, and I hope your rabbit dies and you can’t sell the hutch.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.273, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Bakery admonishment

Of all the cake-headed tricks...

Flashman and the Redskins, p.246, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Fowl language

Having the brain of a backward hen…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.211, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Carry thine eyes

‘Call Makarram Khan a pig just once more, ulla kabaja,* and I will carry thine eyes and genitals on this point as kebabs’.

* Son of an owl.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.118, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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As a general rule

Well, as a general rule anyone can insult me and see how much it pays him, especially if he’s large and ugly and carrying a tulwar*.

* A sword.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.73, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Tedious conversation

    ‘If you think you were tortured, Colonel Flashman,’ says he, poker-faced. ‘then I congratulate you on your ignorance.’ He put down his cup. ‘I find this conversation tedious. ‘If you will excuse me,’ and he turned away.
    ‘Oh, sorry if you’re bored,’ says I. ‘I was forgetting – you probably haven’t cut a throat or burned a peasant in a week.’

Flashman in the Great Game, p.46, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Flashman gets snakey

      ‘Colonel Fwashman!’ he cried. ‘You are a viper!’
       I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me – he shot too damned straight for that.
       ‘Indeed, my lord,’ says I. ‘Yet I don’t wriggle and turn.’

Flashman in the Great Game, p.17, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Personal habits

…I fell the last ten feet, landing on top of the man beneath, who gave a brief commentary on my parents, future, and personal habits as only a Hillman can…

Flashman at the Charge, p.231, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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As the wild sheep defecate

‘You see?’ says Yakub Beg, craning his neck and trying to grin. ‘A dotard, flown with dreams. A badawai zhazh-kayan* who talks as the wild sheep defecate, at random, everywhere. When you and I go hither , Flashman bahadur, we shall leave him, and even the Ruskis will take pity on such a dried-up husk, and employ him to clean their privies –those of the common soldiers, you understand, not the officers.’

*A wild babbler

Flashman at the Charge, pp.220-21, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Downright insulted

‘We must try to use it, to warn Raglan and the people at home! What have we got to lose, except our lives?’
    D’you know, when a man talks like that to me, I feel downright insulted. Why other, unnamed lives, or the East India Company’s dividend, or the credit of Lord Aberdeen or the honour of British arms, should be held by me to be of greater consequence than my own shrinking skin, I’ve always been at a loss to understand.

Flashman at the Charge, pp.171-2, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Insults of an enemy

‘The insults of an enemy are a tribute to the brave,’ laughs he.

Flashman, p.181, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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