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The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it. The Log, the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s. [citation needed]
Along those lines, an alternative proposed meaning is that "the dogs of war" refers figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "let slip" by war's breakdown of civilized behavior and/or their commanders' orders to wreak "havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder. [8] [9] [unreliable source] [unreliable source]
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
U.S. officials said Wednesday they disrupted a Chinese-backed effort to plant malware that could damage civilian infrastructure, as the head of the FBI warned that Beijing is positioning itself to ...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word pogrom entered English from Yiddish which borrowed it from Russian.The OED gives two meanings for the word: [6] In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against ...
This can actually wreak havoc when a member of the public hears the word "communication" coming from a Scientologist and he thinks he understands what "communication" means, but the word "communication" in Scientology is a highly "technical" term which has very little to do with what is generally considered communication.
After such uses, the term abounded for centuries in journalese, such as reporting "rioting and mayhem", which readers misunderstood as meaning "havoc, chaos or pandemonium", and started the usual modern use of the word "mayhem". There is also the term "general mayhem" which involves a lot of anti-social activities happening.
In Ancient Greek mythology, Olethros / ˈ ɒ l ɪ ˌ θ r ɒ s / (Greek: ὄλεθρος) was the Greek concept or personification [citation needed] of "havoc" or "ruin". Olethros translates roughly in ancient Greek to "destruction", but often with a positive connotation, as in the destruction required for and preceding renewal.