DCHP-3

Hudson Bay fashion

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1880
Thankful for such an unexpected conveyance, we were ready to adopt what is called the Hudson’s Bay fashion,--that is, to use anything you can get which will serve your turn, and let the next man forage for himself.
1935
“Hudson Bay style for them,” he said, “Kick, bite and scratch”. . . .“Hudson Bay style” was a reference not to the Company but to the old-time free-for-all fighting among boatmen and voyageurs where there were no rounds, rings or Marquis of Queensbury rules.