[Ads-l] antedating "flatfoot" (foot soldier)

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: 1887

1846 _Glasgow Herald_  (Dec. 7) 4 [Newspapers.com]: Don't listen to those
gentlemen in red, their service is one which no man has brains will ever
think of - footing it over the universal world; they have usually been
called by us the flatfoots.

JL

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