1837: 'Rough' in the Military Dec 26, 2019

The military has given English—just as in many other languages—a lot of terminology, but also a lot of colloquialisms. Both 'rough-and-tumble' and 'rough-and-ready' are originally from the military, though it may be more fair to say that the latter was a general term for a style of free-fighting. Read more about 'rough' here.

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