'Did they say the pheasant pluckers will be coming for us soon? Well, something like that...'
In an episode of"The Duchess of Duke Street" set during The Great War, a woman from an "uplift the morals of our soldiers" busybody group listens to tommies singing the unexpurgated "Mademoiselle from Armentiers," and asks Louisa "Is that 'Drink the wine and pluck the girls?'"