One of the frontrunners for Best Picture in Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony is Kathryn Bigelow's tense depiction of a U.S. bomb squad unit in Iraq, The Hurt Locker. The movie's official website says of the title, "In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to 'the hurt locker."
In fact, like so much American military slang, hurt locker (along with related hurt expressions) dates back to the Vietnam War.
By Ben Zimmer
In fact, like so much American military slang, hurt locker (along with related hurt expressions) dates back to the Vietnam War.
By Ben Zimmer
by maestross March 8, 2010
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by JFG3 September 10, 2010
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Teacher: Jimmy why are you late?
Jimmy: I'm sorry, I had to spend 20 minutes playing locker tetris
Teacher: Ah, I see. Well, go to your seat then
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Teacher: Ah, I see. Well, go to your seat then
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Once he'd become a self-locker Mikey knew he'd made the right lifestyle choice
Tina was determined to see why Matty was so happy in his self-locker status
The parson's sermon on sexual excess drove Simon to become a self-locker.
Once he'd become a self-locker Mikey knew he'd made the right lifestyle choice
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