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Cry havoc

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Verb
  1. 1
    To shout out 'Havoc!'; that is, to give an army the order to plunder. obsolete

    "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war"

Etymology

From Middle English, from the Anglo-Norman phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) (a signal to soldiers to seize plunder), from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).

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