[Ads-l] go for a "Burton"--a 1944 etymology guess

[Jonathan Lighter]

Could be - but that would seem to indicate that the ale really is behind it.

FWIW, "gone for certain" strikes me as somewhat unidiomatic, at least in
the context of air warfare.

JL

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Peter Morris <
peter_morris_1 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

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> Here's  a different early (1943) suggested etymology:=20
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> "The Cockney has taken his rhyming slang with him into the
> Services. "Cape of Good Hope" is still -as it was in the last=20
> war- "soap"; and "gone for a Burton" is "Gone for certain."
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