Fight like a man

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/7/2007 09:54 PM, Iwrote:
>Or you can have "fight like lions" from 1736, "fight like devils"
>from 1745, fight like Britons from 1758, ... .

Considering the article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine,
perhaps these should be replaced by "fight like red squirrels"?  The
article says "But over time the red squirrel became beloved in
Britain. It supplanted the realm's old icon, the lion, as the symbol
of a gentler, more evolved nation" (p. 68, col. 2).

Joel

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