| 单词 | gas gong |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgas gong gas gong n. (in the First World War (1914–18)) a gong, typically an empty shell case, sounded to give warning of a gas attack. ΚΠ 1916 W. A. P. Durie Let. 30 Apr. in Toronto Life (Nexis) Nov. I had not been long in bed when the gas gong rang and an officer of the Battalion next us put his head into our shack and shouted ‘Gas! Stand to!’ 1924 R. H. Mottram Spanish Farm iii. 230 The gas-gong hanging from a nail. 2007 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 25 July 43 We managed to acquire—via eBay—the artillery shell dinner gong which..most probably had been used as a gas gong in the trenches. < as lemmas |
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