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G — Grecian Stairs to Green Goose (Part 3 of 3)

Green Dragoons (The). The 13th Dragoons (whose regimental facings were green). Now called the 13th Hussars, and the regimental facings have been white since 1861.

Green Glasses To look through green glasses. To feel jealous of one; to be envious of another's success.

"If we had an average of theatrical talent, we had also our quantum of stage jealousies; for who looks through his green glasses more peevishly than an actor when his brother Thespian brings down the house with applause." - C. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 197.
Green Goose (A). A young goose not fully grown.