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Anymore details on these sayings your posting would be great.
I.e where they originate from and how they came to be used ?
For example
'Three square meals a day'
Is a term that originates from the Royal Navy as the Sailors meals were served on wooden Square plates.
And the P-47 aircraft now had a name: "Thunderbolt". In postwar sources it would acquire the nickname of "Jug", said to be due to its resemblance to a jug of booze; as a contraction of "juggernaut"; or in reference to a "thunderjug", meaning a chamberpot. However, some sources claim this nickname was not in common use during the war and that the only nicknames it had during the conflict were "Bolt" or "T-Bolt".
The above regarding the P-47 was sourced from the net however I listened to D-DAY by Stephen Ambrose (audio book) at the w/end whilst driving and he stated that the name Jug comes from the German Infantry which was short for some geran word to do with destruction or something ?
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