279: jingo Sep 13, 2015

Usually, a between a word, and a phrase involving that word, the word came first, In the case of the noun, 'jingo', however, the phrase, 'by jingo', came first. It originated from late 17th century by jingo (and the noun sense) come from a popular song adopted by the people who supported sending the British fleet into Turkish waters to resist Russia in 1878. The phrase came from the chorus: “We don't want to fight, yet by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too.”