| 单词 | chase me, charley |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschase me, Charley 11. chase me, Charley: (a) a catchphrase; (b) (see quot. 1945). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > flying rocket bomb1883 chase me, Charley1906 robot plane1929 robot bomb1934 robot1940 buzz-bomb1944 doodlebug1944 flying bomb1944 robomb1944 V-bomb1944 V-11944 V-21944 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xi. 138 The printers cried: ‘Chase me, Charley!’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 484 Chase me, Charley! Buzz! 1945 Newsweek 4 June 90 Off the coast of Italy in 1943, British fighter pilots ran into a new German weapon trained on Allied shipping. It was a small glider with a bomb for a body. Directed by remote control from a launching plane, the device assumed attack position and hurtled itself at the target, where it exploded. The British named it ‘Chase-me-Charlie’. 1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vii. 133 The Germans had aimed another wireless-controlled bomb at the fleet—a ‘chase-me-Charlie’ the British seamen called it. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。