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The jack-in-the-box effect, [1] also known as a turret toss, is a specific effect of a catastrophic kill on a warship, tank or other turreted armored vehicle in which an ammunition explosion causes the tank's turret to be violently blown off the chassis and into the air. It is named after the child's toy, the jack-in-the-box, in which a puppet ...
"Squeeze Box" is a song by the British rock band the Who from their album The Who by Numbers. Written by Pete Townshend , the lyrics are couched in sexual double entendres. Unlike many of the band's other hits, the song features country-like elements, as heard in Townshend's banjo picking.
Letting the cat out of the bag (also ...box) is a colloquialism that means to reveal facts previously hidden. It could refer to revealing a conspiracy (friendly or not) to its target, letting an outsider into an inner circle of knowledge (e.g., explaining an in-joke ), or the revelation of a plot twist in a movie or play.
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" is a 12-bar blues,; [30] melodically and lyrically it resembles Lightnin' Hopkins's "Automobile Blues", [19] [31] English language scholar Douglas Mark Ponton wrote that although Dylan has sometimes used Delta blues themes such as love, sex, mourning and anxiety when composing original blues songs, "he also brings ...
The Def Leppard E.P. is the debut EP by English rock band Def Leppard.The EP was recorded at Fairview Studios in Hull, in November 1978 and self-produced by the band.The EP's cover is a parody of the painting His Master's Voice, with a leopard in place of the painting's dog, Nipper.
To help us out, an engineering team at Instagram decided to delve into the emoji world and looked at some of the most commonly used emoticons. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most-used emoji is the ...
Late lunch makes day go faster; Learn a language, and you will avoid a war (Arab proverb) [5] Least said, soonest mended; Less is more; Let bygones be bygones; Let not the sun go down on your wrath; Let sleeping Aussies lie; Let sleeping dogs lie; Let the buyer beware; Let the cat out of the bag [15] Let the dead bury the dead (N.T.)
Officials carried out a DNA test and learned it was a serval cat, the organization said. The Cincinnati Zoo is taking care of a wild serval (not the one pictured) after it was captured in a ...