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Expression is a classic from Sherlock Holmes.
The expression was a "classic" some 287/288 years before the literary character Sherlock Holmes ever uttered the phrase.
The expression is from William Shakespeare's 'Henry V'* … a story written circa 1598 about King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.**
The lines comes towards the end of a motivational monologue by King Henry V himself to his troops that is sometimes referred to as the 'once more into the breach' speech.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
* Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the Fifth (in the First Quartotext) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text).
** The "Hundred Years War" is actually a misnomer… the war actually lasted some 116 years.
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soot
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How many inches are in afoot?
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What is a word that means something is in play?
afoot
