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
Photograph: EO Hoppe/Getty Images For George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling was "a jingo imperialist … morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
Your twitter name, @edballsmp, might be factually accurate but, by jingo, it's dull.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2011
Beside savagely marching, stiffly saluting Nazis, Fascists, Reds, the blotchy, jerky old jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"In a democracy everybody speaks,” said Dad, "so, by jingo, start speaking.”
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close..
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Oh, jingoes, but we've got one dandy scoutmaster.
From Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh