| 单词 | million-dollar wound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmillion-dollar wound million-dollar wound n. U.S. Military slang a wound severe enough to require a soldier's return home to convalesce (cf. Blighty n. 2). ΚΠ 1905 A. Hunter Johnny Reb & Billy Yank ii. xx. 549 In the parlance of our camp, I had a ‘million-dollar wound,’ which meant a long furlough with no danger to life or limb. 1945 Yank 2 Feb. 4/1 Others, with what the boys enviously called ‘million-dollar wounds’, didn't come back from the hospital. 1999 Arizona Republic (Electronic ed.) 13 Nov. I got a shoulder wound, what we called a million-dollar wound. < as lemmas |
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