| 单词 | to sound the last post |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sound the last post last post n. (a) Military (in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries) the second of two bugle calls giving notice of the hour for retiring at night, traditionally also sounded at military funerals and services of remembrance (see post n.10); (b) (figurative and in figurative contexts) indicating that something which is already failing is about to cease to exist; a demise or end; frequently in to sound the last post. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal on instrument > specific signals dian1591 alvarado1598 retreat1600 reveille1633 preparative1635 leveta1640 charge1650 gathering1653 reveil1668 chamade1684 assembly1728 rouse1789 roll-call1793 dinner call1799 taps1824 recall1825 fall-in1834 last post1845 lights out1864 post1864 assemble1883 society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > signal that time has come warning1389 last post1845 1845 W. N. Hutchinson Standing Orders to Two Battalions, XXth Regiment at Bermuda 100 On the bugles sounding the last post (immediately on the ceasing of the drums)..the Orderly Sergeants..will state whether all the men were sober and present. 1900 Daily News 17 May 3/2 A few hours after, the ‘last post’ sounds over another victim to the pomp and glory of war! 1963 Times 30 Apr. 13/1 The time had come..to sound the last post over the grave of a wages pause policy which had..proved ineffectual. 1985 Sunday Times 18 Aug. 14/8 Last Post for military Chronicle. Gibraltar Chronicle to be sold. 1998 B. DuMoulin & S. Sikundar Celebrating our Cultures 22 Speeches about the need for world peace lead into a trumpet solo of ‘Last Post’. 2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 28 Nov. 2 He was sent-off for a second bookable offence... This was the final blast of a terrible trumpet that may sound a last post for McLeish before this week is out. < as lemmas |
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