Catch Phrases
- "It's Hell in there!" - typically about somewhere hot, crowded etc. or his own quarters and/or latrine.
- "I say, you're cutting it rather fine, aren't you?" - after another character has uttered seemingly contradictory statements.
- "I don't know who you are sir, or where you come from, but you've done me a power of good." - often shortened to "you've (or "that's") done me a power of good". In The Gold Plate Robbery the catchphrase was set to music.
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