Corps of Commissionaires
noun
An organization founded in London in 1859 to provide employment for former soldiers and sailors as messengers, porters, guards, etc.; (also, more fully Canadian Corps of Commissionaires) a similar organization founded in Canada in 1925.
- In Britain, the Corps of Commissionaires now trades as a security company under the name Corps Security. Neither the British nor the Canadian organization currently employs only ex-military personnel..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Cheshire Observer (Chester).
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with
- have had a drop too much
- have had a good innings
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have had one's chips
- have had one's (or its) day