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Eggs-a-cook

From The Great War On This Day

Eggs-a-cook: A Cairo street-sellers' cry when hawking eggs. Applied to themselves by Australians serving in Egypt in a complimentary sense of their being hard-shelled or "hard nuts to crack." [1]

References / notes

  1. Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.87.
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