curse like a trooper

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curse like a trooper (third-person singular simple present curses like a trooper, present participle cursing like a trooper, simple past and past participle cursed like a trooper)

  1. (simile) Synonym of swear like a trooper.
    • 1740, Samuel Richardson, chapter 32, in Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: C. Rivington and J. Osborn:
      Bless me! she curses and storms at me like a trooper[.]
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