jingo
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“We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do / We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Despite winning the Nobel prize, Kipling's reputation has suffered over his association with British imperialism – he was described as a "jingo imperialist" by George Orwell, who also called him "the prophet of British Imperialism".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2013
Your twitter name, @edballsmp, might be factually accurate but, by jingo, it's dull.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2011
It became popular in England in 1745, when its jingo second verse was apparently a direct reference to the efforts of the Stuarts to regain the British throne: O Lord, Our God, arise!
From Time Magazine Archive
Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ’s pretty daughters, or Westmoreland’s whole handsome family—nephews and nieces and baby grandson.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
In one laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close..
From Time Magazine Archive
U. S. jingoes predicted that Britain would send warships to guard her people in Nicaragua the instant the U. S. withdrew, Monroe Doctrine or no Monroe Doctrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
With characteristic naïveté and insular selfishness, some jingoes imagine that if only the naval armaments of Germany could be stopped, all danger to England would be averted.
From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa
