Holly and Kelly: Vatican cameos!
In "A Scandal in Belgravia", Sherlock yells this as sort of a signal word to John when they're about to be shot; they both duck, perform some super awesome slow-mo butt kicking, and are able to retrieve Irene Adler's precious camera phone from her safe. Granted, we've seen each episode at least a half a dozen times, but when we first saw this one we were like "What did he say????" We learned it was "vatican cameos" and, of course, had NO IDEA what that meant. So we did what anyone would do, we looked it up, and we turned up some pretty clever results.
"Vatican cameos" was a term used in World War 2 when an armed person would enter a military base, and it was a signal for everyone to take cover and/or duck if necessary. John was a former soldier and probably recognized this term, so he immediately took action once Sherlock spoke. Pretty clever, huh? "Vatican cameos" was also mentioned in an unknown story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who wrote all the original Sherlock Holmes stories, for those of you who may or may not know).
See for yourself!
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