lose the number of (one's) mess

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obsolete military and naval To die or be killed. Many good men lost the number of their mess after the sabotage attack on our ship.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sloan	[sləun]
Tatenda	-	Southern African, Shona
Maxim	mahk-SEEM (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Wiremu	-	Maori
Milka (2)	-	Biblical
Yolande	[jəʊ'lændə]