| 单词 | maggie's drawers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMaggie's drawers Maggie's drawers n. [thought to be a reference to a song, Those Old Red Flannel Drawers that Maggie Wore (see Amer. Speech (1942) 17 68/2); compare sense 3] U.S. Military slang a red flag used to indicate a miss in target practice. ΚΠ 1936 Our Army July 37/1 Home, home on the range, where all of the bolos roam, Where seldom is heard, ‘Bull's Eye’ as a word, And Maggie's drawers wave all the day. 1943 Sat. Evening Post 20 Mar. 86/3 I've given them ten Maggie's drawers in the last five minutes. I could lay it in the black better with my boon dockers. 1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry i. v. 64 In the pits there was also a red flag, the nemesis of a rifleman. ‘Maggie's drawers’, it was called—the signal for a complete miss. 1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/2 Maggie's Drawers, red flag waved on a rifle range to indicate that target was unmarked. 1990 G. R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 310 On several occasions during the NVA siege of Khe Sanh, Marines waved a pair of Maggie's drawers at the NVA gunners. < as lemmas |
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