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"etymology_text": "Reputed to be from the practice of turning Royal Air Force men out by giving them their bowler hat and telling them to go.",
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"text": "Joe was bowler hatted out of the R.A.F. for misconduct.",
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"ref": "1946, Richard McMillan, Miracle Before Berlin:",
"text": "\"Bit of luck my being here,\" said the brigadier, with a smile, rather like a schoolboy who has done something and got away with it. \"You see, I was bowler-hatted out there. Question of age. Then, when I came back they reconsidered things.",
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"ref": "1958, P.H.H. Bryan, The Barford Cat Affair:",
"text": "If an idea flopped, a subordinate would be bowler-hatted out of the gang; if the idea was successful, then it was Ted Donnell done it.",
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"ref": "1979, Oliver Reed, Reed All about Me: The Autobiography of Oliver Reed:",
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