swear like a trooper

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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And playing me – or the chancellor – is the remarkable Paul Higgins, who himself spent some time in seminary thinking about the priesthood, and who also demonstrated his capacity to swear like a trooper as Jamie, the other ferocious spin-doctor in The Thick of It.

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She could swear like a trooper.

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An American magazine the other day announced in a shocked way that I could evidently “swear like a trooper!”

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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.

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When that happens, she'll swear like a trooper.

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