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boots on the ground Footwear worn by soldiers Combat troops deployed in a geographic area (as opposed to those awaiting deployment and/or in aircraft or ships offshore) [4] box office: A place where tickets are sold, in this example, for movies. A term to describe how well a film is doing. "The film is a hit at the box office." [citation needed ...
Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]
(Get) Hit by a bus To die suddenly and prematurely Informal Hop on the last rattler [5] To die Euphemistic "Rattler" is a slang expression for a freight train. Hop the twig [2] To die Informal Also 'to hop the stick'. Pagan belief that to jump a stick on the ground leads to the Afterworld. In Abraham's bosom [2] In heaven Neutral
The expression "boots on the ground" is an example of synecdoche which has an extended military-jargon history. It certainly dates back at least to British officer Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, strategist of the British counter-insurgency efforts against the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 (see entry).
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Exceptions to this rule that result in play stopping include when the player carrying the ball is on the ground but not downed by contact (e.g., after tripping and falling) and is touched by a member of the opposing team while still on the ground; or when the player with the ball intentionally kneels down on the ground and stops advancing, e.g ...
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The "Die with your boots on" idiom originates from frontier towns in the 19th-century American West. [1] Some sources (e.g., American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms) say that the phrase probably originally alluded to soldiers who died on active duty.