French army denies plans for rash Afghan exit
Despite French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling for an end to operations in Afghanistan after the shooting of four French soldiers, the army has said it will not be withdrawing immediately.
Description: The recalled pacifiers have "Japlo" imprinted on the front of the pacifier shield at the bottom, center. The pacifiers were sold in blue, white and pink with various words or designs printed on the button of the pacifier.
But in fact, it turned out that they were all available through the
Internet and so a couple of clicks on the button and my Visa card
number and they all arrived in a FedEx package the next day. So
generally speaking, the papers were quite easy to get.
on the button 運動界之俗語 北美
Exactly right, precisely, as in Her review of the book was right on the button, or We're supposed to be there at six o'clock on the button. This term may come from boxing, where a punch on the button means "a punch on the chin." [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see on the dot.
On the button
MeaningJust right; exactly on target or at exactly the right time.
Origin
The Vancouver Winter Olympics have provoked a rash of emails asking if 'on the button' derives from the sport of Curling. In curling, which has a Scots sub-language all of its own, the centre of the target (a.k.a. 'house') is called the button. The object is to get the stones as near as possible to the middle of the target, so being 'on the button' at the end of a game is clearly no bad thing. The sport has an ancient enough pedigree to have spawned the odd phrase as well as its jargon words, as it originated in Scotland in the 1600s and it would be pleasing to find a Scottish phrase that wasn't coined by Sir Walter Scott. Regrettably, 'on the button' is a 20th century phrase and from the USA. It is from a sporting context, but from boxing rather than curling. The 'button' in question is the US slang term for the point of the chin. The phrase started being used around the end of WWI and there are many printed citations of 'the champ was socked on the button' etc. from that period. The earliest citation of the phrase that I have found is from the impressively named Indiana newspaper The Logansport Pharos-Reporter, May 1917:
Moran is a one-punch fighter. He packs a mighty mean crusher in his right hand. If it ever lands on the button Morris will prove himself a superman if he doesn't go down.The precise location of the button was made clear in Harry Witwer's screenplay for the 1921 boxing film The Leather Pushers:
The Kid floored him with a right cross to the button of the jaw.P. G. Wodehouse, a frequent visitor to the USA, took up the phrase and introduced it to the UK, as in his novel Laughing Gas, 1936, for example:
He soaked [socked] him on the button, don't you know.Before long the term began to be used to mean 'accurately; precisely' and came to refer to times as well as locations. An early example of that is found in Printers' Ink Monthly, May 1937:
On the button, a program ending exactly on time.The interest in the possible curling-related source of 'on the button' has come about because of the media interest in the much-fancied British team and their chances of a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. It's no surprise that, with personnel with names like Ewan MacDonald, David Murdoch etc., the British team is really the Scottish team. That's only so long as they are winning though. Having lost to Sweden, the English newspapers have stopped referring to 'our boys', who can now enjoy being Scottish again.
rash[rash1]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[rǽʃ]
[形]〈人が〉向こう見ず［軽率］な；〈言動が〉無分別な, 思慮の足りない, せっかちな
a rash decision
性急な決定
性急な決定
It would be rash of you ［＝You would be rash］ to go just now.
今すぐ行くのはむちゃだ.
今すぐ行くのはむちゃだ.
rash・ly
[副]
rash・ness
[名]rash[rash2]
- 発音記号[rǽʃ]
[名]
1 ((a 〜))（はしか・猩紅(しょうこう)熱などの）発疹(はっしん), 紅疹, 皮疹, 吹き出物
come ［break］ out in a rash
発疹が出る.
発疹が出る.
2 ((通例a 〜))（事件などの）多発, 頻発((of ...))
［フランス語←ラテン語rāsus （rādereひっかく＋-sus過去分詞語尾＝ひっかかれるもの）. △RAPE1, RAPID］
a rash of complaints ［letters］
不満の爆発［どっと舞い込む手紙］.
不満の爆発［どっと舞い込む手紙］.
col·logue (k
-l
g
)
intr.v. col·logued, col·logu·ing, col·logues
1. To be on friendly or intimate terms with someone.
2.
a. To consult or confer with someone.
b. To chat.
collogue[col・logue]
- 発音記号[kəlóug]
3. Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. To conspire; intrigue: "I'm satisfied they're colloguing to beat me out of my place" (Dialect Notes).
[Perhaps alteration (influenced by Latin colloqu
, to converse) of colleague, to enter into an alliance, from Old French colleguer, from Latin collig
re, to collect (influenced by Old French collegue, colleague); see colligate.]
, to converse) of colleague, to enter into an alliance, from Old French colleguer, from Latin colligre, to collect (influenced by Old French collegue, colleague); see colligate.]Physics Colloquium
col·lo·qui·um (k
-lkw
-m)
n. pl. col·lo·qui·ums or col·lo·qui·a (-kw-)
-)
1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views.
2. An academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting.
[Latin, conversation, from colloqu, to talk together : com-, com- + loqu, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]
floor
, to talk together : com-, com- + loqu, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]floor
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