busby-bag
noun
1The cloth flap attached to a busby, the colour of which (in the British army) indicates the regiment to which a soldier belongs.
2A member of one of the regiments who wear busbies (rare ).
Origin
Early 19th century.
- by marriage
- by means of
- by mistake
- by myself
- by name
- byname
- by no manner of means
- by no means
- by no (or not by any) stretch of the imagination
- by numbers
- BYO
- BYOB
- BYOD
- BYOG
- by oneself
- by one's fingertips
- by (or at) someone's side
- by order
- by (or from) all accounts
- by (or in) leaps and bounds
- by (or in) virtue of
- by (or of) the name of
- by (or on) one's lonesome
- by (or on) request
- by (or through) the back door