English · Idiom Historical

Foreign Office and its policy

Preserved but no longer current.

Meaning · English

In the Allied bombing of Berlin in World War II most of the street was levelled with the ground.

Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)

Sources & notes

Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.

Topics: Historical slang (1800s)

Common questions

What does “Foreign Office and its policy” mean?

In the Allied bombing of Berlin in World War II most of the street was levelled with the ground.

Is “Foreign Office and its policy” formal or informal?

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