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Andrew Miller en · NOUN
Etymology
Sometimes said to originate from the name of an 18th-century Lieutenant named Andrew Millar, famed for impressing many people into naval service; however, there is no evidence such a person existed.
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A warship.
And what did you know, you bumpkin! before you came on board this Andrew Miller?
1850, Herman Melville, chapter IV, in White-Jacket, published 1850, page 24:
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Andrew Miller en · PROPN
Etymology
Sometimes said to originate from the name of an 18th-century Lieutenant named Andrew Millar, famed for impressing many people into naval service; however, there is no evidence such a person existed.
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(UK, slang) The Royal Navy; service in the Navy.
Since those days I have met scores of men who have deserted from Her Majesty's Army and Navy, and every one of them, without exception, curses the day he left the service, or, as the seamen term it, ‘Andrew Miller’.
1906, W. H. Blake, The Adventures of a Naval Chief Gunner, page 5:I'm not a flight sergeant, we don't have 'em in the Andrew Miller.
1984, Kenneth Poolman, Chanter R.N., page 151:He wont do for Andrew Millar, for he's mair like unto a cuckoo clock-maker than a Jack tar.
1826, Matthew Henry Barker, Greenwich hospital, page 2:
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