They were ordered to the field, and their places filled by the Georgia Reserves, an organization of boys under, and men over the military age. As General Grant aptly-phrased it, They had robbed the cradle and the grave, in forming these regiments.
The actress, 31, also pooh-poohs the notion that she's robbing the cradle with Timberlake, 22.
When the old woman married a young man, everyone said she was robbing the cradle.