英语词汇“kitchener wants you”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Kitchener wants you: used as an appeal for people to enlist in the armed forces, and subsequently (Army slang) in ironic use, with reference to any arduous, unpleasant, or dangerous task. Now historical.With reference to an image showing Kitchener's head and his raised arm pointing towards the viewer, designed by Alfred Leete, used in the recruitment campaign at the beginning of the First World War (1914–18), originally as the front cover of the London Opinion of 5 Sept. 1914.

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1915 Spectator 16 Jan. 78/1 We have had appeals on posters, and otherwise, such as ‘Kitchener Wants You’, ‘The King's Army Wants 500,000 Men’, ‘Your King and Country Want You’, but there has never been a really personal appeal from the King himself.

1930 Illustr. London News 3 May 794/2 No one who remembers the war can forget the face which stared down from the posters with such compelling force that the legend ‘Kitchener Wants You’ seemed a command that could not be evaded.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 458/1 Kitchener wants you! A military c.p. to a man selected for filthy, arduous or perilous work.

1974 Irish Times 29 July 10/5 ‘Lord Kitchener wants you!’—marching feet—‘Tipperary’, ‘Dolly Gray’. An army troop-ship sailing away!

2001 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 11 129 Though he kept his head down, wartime conditions impinged on his life in various ways. A boy shouted ‘Kitchener wants you!’ at him when he was going into his club.

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释义	> as lemmas Kitchener wants you Kitchener wants you: used as an appeal for people to enlist in the armed forces, and subsequently (Army slang) in ironic use, with reference to any arduous, unpleasant, or dangerous task. Now historical.With reference to an image showing Kitchener's head and his raised arm pointing towards the viewer, designed by Alfred Leete, used in the recruitment campaign at the beginning of the First World War (1914–18), originally as the front cover of the London Opinion of 5 Sept. 1914. ΚΠ 1915 Spectator 16 Jan. 78/1 We have had appeals on posters, and otherwise, such as ‘Kitchener Wants You’, ‘The King's Army Wants 500,000 Men’, ‘Your King and Country Want You’, but there has never been a really personal appeal from the King himself. 1930 Illustr. London News 3 May 794/2 No one who remembers the war can forget the face which stared down from the posters with such compelling force that the legend ‘Kitchener Wants You’ seemed a command that could not be evaded. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 458/1 Kitchener wants you! A military c.p. to a man selected for filthy, arduous or perilous work. 1974 Irish Times 29 July 10/5 ‘Lord Kitchener wants you!’—marching feet—‘Tipperary’, ‘Dolly Gray’. An army troop-ship sailing away! 2001 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 11 129 Though he kept his head down, wartime conditions impinged on his life in various ways. A boy shouted ‘Kitchener wants you!’ at him when he was going into his club. extracted from Kitchenern.² < as lemmas
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