Question of the Day #1140

“It’s nothing firm. But they said, ‘Hey can you stay frosty on this?’ — like a Navy Seals thing — ‘because we’d love to talk to you about it,’” Tesh said.

From the last paragraph of this article at the New York Post.

  上記の文で、stay frostyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "stay frosty" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 〈俗〉〔動乱などの中で〕冷静さを保つ、動じないでいる◆主に命令文で。
2. 〈俗〉元気である◆命令文で「じゃあ（元気で）ね」という別れの挨拶として用いる。◆【類】Stay cool.

   

Answer

According to Wiktionary:

1. (military, slang) To be alert and ready for action, without letting one's fear or other emotions get in the way.
2. (slang) To keep one's cool.

 

語源

Wiktionaryによると、

もともと軍人が使用したスラング。おそらくkeeping one's cool（冷静でいるように）の意味で使用されていたが、危険な状況で特に注意しなければならないことを強調した。

 

Etymology

According to Wiktionary:

Originally military slang, probably as a reference to keeping one's cool, but with extra emphasis because of the need to stay alert in dangerous situations.

   

Examples

1. 1986, 'Corporal Hicks', Aliens (movie): We're all in strung out shape, but stay frosty, and alert.
2. 2007, Sean Michael Flynn, The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad: He and a small group of other loyalists stayed frosty and refused to let the unit die.
3. 2009, Gregory H. Wahl, Charles A. Bobbitt, It Didn't Play in Peoria: In other words, be aware—stay frosty.
4. “Alright, I’m heading out. Stay Frosty guys.”
5. “Stay frosty team. I used to eat punks like this for breakfast.”

   

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