| 单词 | to get the jacket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (also obtain, receive) the (or one's) jacket 4. Military colloquial. By metonymy: a post in the Royal Horse Artillery; frequently in to get (also obtain, receive) the (or one's) jacket. Formerly also: †a soldier, esp. a member of the cavalry or the Royal Horse Artillery, who wears a jacket (obsolete). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > appointment to unit > to Royal Horse Artillery jacket1881 1881 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 21 Dec. Lieutenant H P Hickman, R A, has got the jacket, and been posted to a battery in India of the Royal Horse Artillery. 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. May 556 Lieut. Tanner obtained his ‘jacket’, and was the beau ideal of a horse-artillery officer. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 5/3 Until 1895..a ‘jacket’—i.e., a post in the Royal Field Horse Artillery—might be given to an officer of Field Artillery or of Garrison Artillery. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 158/2 Jacket (Military), a soldier who wears a jacket (chiefly cavalry or horse artillery). 1982 D. Fraser Alanbrooke iii. 52 In the midst of this Brooke heard that he had got his ‘jacket’. He was to join ‘N’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, known as ‘The Eagle Troop’. 2000 Times (Nexis) 6 June He began his army career as a gunner, receiving his ‘Jacket’ in the Royal Horse Artillery. < as lemmas |
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