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- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
Job's turkey Anyone or anything having a look of destitution or starvation. Union Hospital Stewart Solon Hyde of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was captured and held in Libby Prison, noted: "Our squad seemed to be of the Job's turkey' order; completely poverty-stricken". The expression came from the Old Testament account of the patriarch Job.
From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 163.
From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 163.