The general went out to find that none of his GIs were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general was very skeptical about this explanation but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go.
Moments later, eight more GIs came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too.
A ninth GI jogged up to the general, panting heavily. "Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the general interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."
- part (one's lips) noisily in anticipation of food.
- move, hit, etc., with a smack. —adv. Colloq. - with a smack.
- suddenly; directly; violently.
- exactly (smack in the centre). a smack in the eye (or face) colloq. Rebuff; setback. [imitative]
- (foll. By of) —v. - have a flavour of; taste of.
- suggest (smacks of nepotism). —n. - flavour.
- barely discernible quality. [old english]
- n. Single-masted sailing-boat. [low german or dutch]
- n. Slang heroin or other hard drug. [probably alteration of yiddish schmeck sniff]
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arms n.pl. Portable firearms.
- beer n. Trifling thing.
- change n. Coins, not notes.
- fry n. Unimportant people; children.
- hours n.pl. Period soon after midnight.
- print n. Unfavourable clauses etc. In a contract, usu. Printed small.
- talk n. Light social conversation.
- —adj. - not large or big.
- not great in importance, amount, number, power, etc.
- not much; little (paid small attention).
- insignificant (from small beginnings).
- of small particles (small shot).
- on a small scale (small farmer).
- poor or humble.
- mean; ungenerous.
- young (small child). —n. - slenderest part of a thing, esp. Of the back.
- (in pl.) Colloq. Underwear, esp. As laundry. —adv. Into small pieces (chop it small). feel (or look) small be humiliated or ashamed. smallish adj. Smallness n. [old english]
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