Question of the Day #151

"‘President BoneSpur is playing war’: Internet horrified by Trump’s ‘locked and loaded’ North Korea threat "
From the first sentence of the third paragraph of this article at the Raw Story.

上記の文で、President BoneSpurとlocked and loadedの意味は？
In the sentence above, what do "President BoneSpur" and "locked and loaded" mean?

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解答

意味：

President BoneSpur
bone spurとは、骨棘のことです。トランプ大統領は、若いころベトナム戦争の徴兵を骨棘があることから免れたと言われているので、President BoneSpurをこの記事の見出しに使っています。

英辞郎によるとlocked and loadedの意味は、


臨戦態勢にある、準備が整っている、〔ライフル銃に〕弾が装てん済みの

Answer

President BoneSpur, of course, refers to the fact that President Trump avoided the draft by claiming he had a bone spur.

According to Wiktionary "lock and load" means the following:

1. A command to prepare a weapon for battle. 
2. Prepare for an imminent event.

Etymology/語源

Wiktionaryによると、

少なくとも1793年の説明書に射撃する準備がされた火打ち石銃がwell locked and loadedと称されたことから。

According to Wiktionary:

Attested since at least 1793, when a document describes flintlock weapons that are ready to fire as "well locked and loaded".

Examples

• One of the commandos in Resident Evil says "It's time to lock and load." when firstseeing advancing zombies.
• They are very locked and loaded with this whole thing.
• Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.