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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).
Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).
Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States The federal government of the United States [1] Watergate: The Watergate Hotel and Office Building in Washington, D.C. The political scandal exposed after a burglary at the Watergate Hotel [5] The White House: The official residence of the president of the United States
Some sources (e.g., American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms) say that the phrase probably originally alluded to soldiers who died on active duty. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms says: "Die with your boots on was apparently first used in the late 19th century of deaths of cowboys and others in the American West who were killed in gun battles or ...
It crossed into Michigan around 4:45am EDT (causing a seiche over Lake Michigan) bringing 60-90 mph winds to the entire state with the southern counties being hit with 120-130 mph winds. The event caused the largest power outage recorded in the state's history. It crossed the state at a blistering 70 mph and entered Ontario bringing 75 mph winds.
Take us back to when the song was written, Jesse." Jesse Frasure: "We all kind-of came up, including Rhett, loving a lot of different styles of music, whether it was classic rock or '90s hip-hop.
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
Replica of the shoe thrown at George W. Bush in a New York Museum.. 7 April: Arbab Ghulam Rahim, the former Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan, was leaving the back door of the Sindh assembly building after taking oath as a newly elected member when he was hit by a shoe allegedly thrown by Agha Javed Pathan, a worker from the Pakistan Peoples Party.