英语词汇“right in the pickle barrel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. U.S.A.F. slang. A (small or precise) target. Chiefly in phrases suggesting accuracy in bombing, esp. in right in the pickle barrel and variants. Also attributive (see also sense B.).Apparently originally in claims made for the Norden bombsight.

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1940 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 June 7/4 The dive-bomber is absolutely indispensable if..you lack the kind of a bomb sight which makes it possible to drop a bomb into [a] pickle barrel from a safe height.]

1940 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 27 Nov. 12/6 Known in the States as the ‘pickle barrel’ sight, because they are supposed to be able to drop a bomb in a pickle barrel with it from 2,000 feet.

1944 Official Guide to Army Air Forces 369/1 Picklebarrel, shack or target in bombardier training.

1962 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 7 May 1 The Polaris missile fired from a submarine in the Pacific dropped its nuclear warhead ‘right in the pickle barrel’.

2001 J. P. Craven Silent War v. 75 The bomb exploded over the South Pacific, more than a thousand miles downrange, ‘right in the pickle barrel’ in the phrase of the day.

单词	right in the pickle barrel
释义	> as lemmas right in the pickle barrel 2. U.S.A.F. slang. A (small or precise) target. Chiefly in phrases suggesting accuracy in bombing, esp. in right in the pickle barrel and variants. Also attributive (see also sense B.).Apparently originally in claims made for the Norden bombsight. ΚΠ 1940 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 June 7/4 The dive-bomber is absolutely indispensable if..you lack the kind of a bomb sight which makes it possible to drop a bomb into [a] pickle barrel from a safe height.] 1940 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 27 Nov. 12/6 Known in the States as the ‘pickle barrel’ sight, because they are supposed to be able to drop a bomb in a pickle barrel with it from 2,000 feet. 1944 Official Guide to Army Air Forces 369/1 Picklebarrel, shack or target in bombardier training. 1962 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 7 May 1 The Polaris missile fired from a submarine in the Pacific dropped its nuclear warhead ‘right in the pickle barrel’. 2001 J. P. Craven Silent War v. 75 The bomb exploded over the South Pacific, more than a thousand miles downrange, ‘right in the pickle barrel’ in the phrase of the day. extracted from pickle barreln.adj. < as lemmas
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