"[censored] the torpedoes, full speed ahead"---as Amurikin as apple pie and one of our countries most famous sayings originating I beleive in the war of 1812 when our fledgeling U.S.navy kicked the [censored] out of the British navy, then the ruler of the seas. There are some more colorful sayings concerning the Brits', shall I say unorganized retreat to the Gulf, after they met up with some of my ancestral kin down New Orleans way. That would surely be censored though so never mind.
J