Boy’s Own Paper

Boy’s Own Paper
a British magazine of adventure stories for boys that was published from 1879 to 1967. British people sometimes use the phrase Boy’s Own to describe brave or exciting things that people have done:

His escape from the rebels’ camp was pure Boy’s Own stuff.

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