I imagine being shell-shocked after a gruesomely fiery barrage, wandering the city aghast at the carnage, and eventually being found by some French-speaking allied troops who coped with all the wreckage with a kind of fatalistic acceptance of it all.
So it goes.
So thanks for that. I have wondered what inspired the phrase; now I suspect I know.
I imagine being shell-shocked after a gruesomely fiery barrage, wandering the city aghast at the carnage, and eventually being found by some French-speaking allied troops who coped with all the wreckage with a kind of fatalistic acceptance of it all.
So it goes.
So thanks for that. I have wondered what inspired the phrase; now I suspect I know.