单词 | to ship a stripe |
释义 | > as lemmasto ship a stripe b. to ship a stripe: to gain promotion in the navy or air-force. colloquial. ΚΠ 1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 38 I see in this morning's paper that I have shipped another stripe (Flight Lieutenant). 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 333/2 For once his clothes were more interesting than mine for he had ‘shipped’ his half-stripe, and was a whole degree more important in the world! < as lemmas |
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