With his woolseley side in

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  • Brian O’Linn: “With the skinny side out and the woolly side in” → from the Irish song about a character who always makes the best of the bad situations in which he finds himself


  • Wellesley: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington → Battle of Waterloo
  • Cardinal Wolsey: Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, a powerful statesman during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
  • Wolseley: a British automobile manufacturer
  • Viscount Wolseley: Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, a Dublin-born British Field Marshal, who is parodied as Major-General Stanley ("the very model of a modern Major-General") in Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy opera The Pirates of Penzance