swear like a trooper

Idioms  

1. Freely utter profanity or obscenity, as in The teacher was shocked when she heard one of the fathers begin to swear like a trooper. The troopers in this term were the cavalry, who were singled out for their swearing from the early 1700s on.

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Example Sentences

Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now let us stop, for the 'super' Will want us to-morrow by noon; And as he can swear like a trooper, We can't be a minute too soon.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

At any rate she's a great man of a woman; can swear like a trooper if things don't go right.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

Therefore I grumble and swear like a trooper, but at the same time I gradually withdraw, so that she has full liberty.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various