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Show Something Wrong if KM1' Pilola Till Up a Jil.i.k' Tho I1AF liiis developed n l;in-Kuiiho l;in-Kuiiho nil It:) own. Many of the term.'!, mich tin "ilrowried oil" fir bored, mid "1'ut up u black" for dolnn something wrong, bave been adopted now into common UM.-ige. Somo expre.i.'iion.s have been borrowed bor-rowed from the United SlnteH, including in-cluding "Flinging a woo," which moans to have a dulo with a girl, nnd "Itoughncck" wliich, in the UAF does not mean a tough guy, but an unliltcable person. "Gen" means the real, lnide Information on anything, and, similarly, "dull gen" means wrong information. A "flap" is a sudden operation. To be in a "flap" or in a "flat spin" means to be busy on a job, too busy to do anything else. The "Chief Plumber" is, of course, tho Chief Engineer; the "Quack" is the doctor; the "Second "Sec-ond Dickey" is the Eecond pilot, and a stickyback is an RAF photographer. pho-tographer. Pilots who go "dicing" or on a "shaky-do" are attacking a difficult diffi-cult and dangerous target; if it's an easy target it's a "piece of cake." After they drop their bombs they sometimes "stooge around to take a beaker," meaning to hang around to have a look. To "carry the can" is to "hold the baby" or to be the scapegoat, while pilots suffering from that morning-after feeling are "newt-ed." |