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
Kazuo	kah-zoo-o	Japanese
Piedad	pye-DHAHD	Spanish
Sancha	SAHN-chah	Spanish
Jumaane	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Oleksiy	-	Ukrainian
Flossie	['flɔsi]