Military Crossword Clue??
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Military Crossword Clue??
I was a little surprised to notice 2 down in today's Torygraph crossword:
I won't insult Ppruners' intelligence by revealing the answer, but the solution clearly derives from what I thought was a purely military meaning of that phrase.
One is vaguely aware of a noisy televison programme of that name, but I can't recall the use of that meaning outside of a military context.
Bit unfair then on non-military cruciverbalists innit?
Cross with broker's compensation for hardship (1-6)
One is vaguely aware of a noisy televison programme of that name, but I can't recall the use of that meaning outside of a military context.
Bit unfair then on non-military cruciverbalists innit?
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Just looked it up in the dictionary and had no idea that it means what it does... Always thought it was mathmatical... One lives and learns...
So, how - or why - on earth did the TV programme get its name?
So, how - or why - on earth did the TV programme get its name?
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Good point treadi , and I suppose I should have looked in a dictionary myself. OED gives the following:
.. with no other (non-military) meaning and no citation before the 1969 AFPRB report which introduced it.
But I'm still at a loss as to the TV use of it
j. X factor (Mil. colloq.), the aspects of a serviceman's life that have no civilian equivalent; pay made in recognition of these.
But I'm still at a loss as to the TV use of it
