C rations
plural noun North American
A type of tinned food formerly used by American soldiers.However, they like C rations and will eat them for a longer time than American troops will before complaining....
- The meals in the case of C rations would not always be the same from one case to another as the date of production on any case of C rations may vary widely.
- On the frontlines, soldiers were eating K rations, C rations and D rations.
Origin
C for combat.
- not be able to do something for toffee
- not be above
- not be an option
- not bear thinking about
- not before time
- not be fussy
- not-being
- (not) be myself
- not be oneself
- (not) be ourselves
- not be someone's first rodeo (or not be someone's first time at the rodeo)
- not best pleased
- (not) be themselves
- not be worth a damn
- (not) be yourself
- not blink an eye
- not breathe a word
- not but what
- not by a long chalk
- (not) by a long shot
- not care (or give) a hang
- not care (or give) a hoot (or two hoots)
- not care (or give) a straw (or two straws)
- notch
- notch baby