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all clear, phr., also used as n.
A signal giving information that there is no danger; spec. the signal that hostile aircraft have left the neighbourhood (‘raiders passed’). Also attrib. and transf.
1902J. Conrad Youth 9 There was a moment of confusion, yelling, and running about. Steam roared. Then somebody was heard saying, ‘All clear, sir.’ 1917Times 18 Oct. 6/3 It has been decided that the ‘All clear’ signal after air raids shall in future be given by bugle calls. 1922Wodehouse Girl on Boat xvii. 282 Webster had promised to come and knock an all-clear signal on the door. 1923― Inimit. Jeeves v. 55 The effect she had on me whenever she appeared was to make me want to slide into a cellar and lie low till they blew the All-Clear. 1936Economist 15 Feb. 347/2 The ‘all-clear’ for armament expansion on a great scale is being given. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Practical Cats 40 The [railway] signal goes ‘All Clear!’ 1939War Weekly 3 Nov. 41/2 The alarm was at 2.30 and the ‘all clear’ half an hour later. 1942Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War, 18 Mar.–9 June 9 (caption) After the ‘All Clear’... Malta after a ‘raiders passed’ signal had been given, showing the people about to resume their daily occupations. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Rev. i. iii. 70, I felt a sense of liberation and peace such as I was to know years later when after a night of unrest, the syrens sounded the ‘All Clear’. |