Doffing his tile

The Yankee secret service evidently left nothing to chance. “Good luck, Comber . . . and,” he added quietly, “if need be, good hunting.” Cool as a trout, rot him, doffing his tile and knuckling his lip-whisker as we drove away.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.196, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Cool as

Usually he was as cool as a trout...

Flashman, p.173, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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How cool?

...Burnes himself was sitting reading in his study as cool as a minnow…

Flashman, p.115, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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