Gored / go red / ergo

 

    ‘Go red?’

 

I had not the least idea what he meant. It seemed possible he might have returned to the subject of sexual habits, planning something in that line embarrassing even to himself.

 

‘Become a full colonel.’

 

He snapped the words out. Failure to recognize a colloquialism had irritated him. The phrase was peculiar to himself.

(The Military Philosophers, p. 116)