OOPS D'oh! OED flannel.. maybe?

[David Payne]

On 27 Feb 2008, grladams at teleport.com quoted the OED on "taking flannel": 

> b. Garments of flannel, for boating, cricket etc.; spec. flannel
> trousers. to get or receive one's flannels (see quot. 1889).

A GoogleBook search finds a related meaning of the phrase: "become a full colonel" (i.e., receive a military promotion. The phrase is apparently synomynous with the phrase "red hat."

See: 

Which will take you page 110 of _A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement_ by By Anthony Powell. 

Curiously, this same text seems to appear on page 110 of _The Military Philosophers_, 1910, also by Anthony Powell.



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