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 Go it Blind.Go it, you Cripples! 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Go it, Warwick!
 
A street cry during the Peninsular War, meaning, “Go it, ye cripples!” The Warwickshire militia, stationed at Hull, were more than ordinarily licentious and disorderly.   1
 


 Go it Blind.Go it, you Cripples! 

 
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