Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

English expression meaning that "he looks tough and knows how to handle himself in a fight etc" But I guess you probably knew that.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.