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Barrack-Room Ballads — The Barrack Room Ballads are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896. Many have become classic military ditties, still well known, and are closely linked to… … Wikipedia
Киплинг — (Rudiard Kipling) известный английский беллетрист, сын писателя и директора лагорской школы художеств. Род. в Бомбее в 1864 г.; воспитывался сначала в Индии, потом в Англии. В 1882 году он вернулся в Индию, сделался соредактором Lahore Civil and… … Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона
barrack-room lawyer — an opinionated but well informed know all Usually an old soldier who combines knowledge of army regulations with experience and bloody mindedness. In America also as barracks lawyer and in the navy as ship s lawyer or sea lawyer: Who… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
