awaken a sleeping giant

(v.) to prompt a powerful force of unknown destuctive capabilities into action.
Hitler awakened a sleeping giant by declaring war on the USSR.


Japan awakened a sleeping giant by bombing Pearl Harbor.
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coffin nail

Anything that contributes to an early death, particularly....

(N.) Cigarette, usage pre-world war I and still continuing today.
"Whip me a pack of coffin nails to put me to a premature death"
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Net profit

Our net profit is less than 1% of our gross profit. We have too many o/hs.
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bread and butter

(n.) One's trade, proffession or other means of earning.
a little bird told me that sucking cock is your bread and butter
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flank

The extreme left or right of a military formation. The following is an extract:

Flank attack (Mil.), an attack upon the side of an army or body of troops, distinguished from one upon its front or rear.

Flank company (Mil.), a certain number of troops drawn up on the right or left of a battalion; usually grenadiers, light infantry, or riflemen.

Flank defense (Fort.), protection of a work against undue exposure to an enemy's direct fire, by means of the fire from other works, sweeping the ground in its front.

Flank en potence (Mil.), any part of the right or left wing formed at a projecting angle with the line.

Flank files, the first men on the right, and the last on the left, of a company, battalion, etc.

Flank march, a march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order to turn it or to attack him on the flank.

Flank movement, a change of march by an army, or portion of one, in order to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position.

Flanks of a frontier, salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion.

Flank patrol, detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secure it against surprise and to observe the movements of the enemy.
An out-flanking manoeuvre.
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call to arms

An event that causes people to become militant or vigilante, often, against the feel of the majority, or a large number of people.
9-11 was a call to arms for anti-muslim hate groups.
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Reichstag

The symbol of Germany democracy, burned down in the thirties. A dutch communist in the building that night was executed for the burning down, but it was beneficial to the new nazi government in permanent postponement of democracy.
It is unclear who burned down the reichstag; The nazis; Communist parties; Van der Lubbe?
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