Be British, boys to your bellybone

• "Be British, boys, be British:" reportedly shouted by Titanic captain, Edward John Smith, shouted: "Be British, boys, be British," in an attempt to slow rge panicked rush to lifeboats (1912)
• bellibone: (from French belle et bonne, beautiful and good] a woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
• bellybone: according to Joyce, from Douglas: London Street Games 37: (a chant)

 I was in my kitchen 
 Doing a bit of stitching, 
 Old Father Nimble 
 Came and took my thimble, 
 I got up a great big stone, 
 Hit him on the belly bone.

• belly bone: pelvis; with a suggestion of penis
• to the bone: all the way through, completely, so thrpughly British