Question of the Day #1057

Gird your loins because alcoholic Solo has arrived in Australia

From the headline of this article at LAD Bible.

  上記の文で、gird one's loinsの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "gird one's loins" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎には、gird up one's loinsになっていますが意味は同じです。

気持ちを引き締める

   

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

To prepare oneself to face or contend with something.

   

Examples

• You better gird your loins in preparation for another holiday with my dysfunctional family!
• They better gird up their loins—the weather up there is no joke.
• We girded our loins to face our competitors.
• He is girding his loins to demand financial compensation.
• I am girding up my loins for another round of high-level meetings.

   

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Question of the Day #1056

Lakers News: Los Angeles Team On The Fritz About To Face Jazz Team On The Rise

From the headline of this article at Sports Illustrated.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〔機器などが〕正常に機能しなくなって、故障して

   

Answer

According to the Collins Dictionary:

(of an appliance, etc) broken or malfunctioning

 

Examples

• The fridge is on the fritz again.
• My mother's toaster went on the fritz.
• Dave Madore owns the arcade and jukeboxes inside the restaurant, where he was supposed to be Wednesday night to fix a jukebox that was on the fritz. —Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• If your cell phone, for instance, landed on Venus, the thermal energy would set off a flurry of electrons and send your device on the fritz. —Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Low in fiber and high in simple carbohydrates, white rice is easy to digest—a major plus when your stomach is on the fritz, says Goldberg. —Women's Health, 17 Apr. 2023

   

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Question of the Day #1055

Talkin' 'bout my generation: From boomers to zoomers, a simple guide to each age group

From the headline of this article at Euronews.com.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

【名】 Z世代の人◆【参考】Generation Z

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a person born in the late 1990s or the early 2000s : a member of Generation Z

 

Examples

• Millennials and Zoomers aren’t parents and children respectively but rather siblings, one older and one younger, both forged by the internet.
• This colour is sometimes called Zoomer green to reference the generation who wears it.
• He said that while Millennials had to learn new tech after it came along, Zoomers “have had all the new tech since they were babies.”
• Zoomers represented 16% of apartment applications in 2019, but last year accounted for 22% of applications. … Millennials still dominate with just under half of rental applications, but over time their dominance will wane as that of Zoomers grows. —Aldo Svaldi
• Support for LGBTQ rights has exploded during the course of zoomers' lives, which may explain why more young adults are willing to be open about who they are. —Carter Sherman

   

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Question of the Day #1054

The $7 Billion Japanese E-Tailer That's Targeting the USA

From the headline of this article at Business of Fashion.

  上記の文で、e-tailerの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "e-tailer" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《イ》Eテイラー◆可算◆インターネットを利用して商売する小売業者のこと。もともとは「e-retailer」であったが、発音しにくいのでこのように言う。◆【同】online merchant

   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

a business that uses the internet to sell its products

 

Examples

• This company is the biggest wine e-tailer in California.
• Spend it online, and unless you live in exactly the same community as the e-tailer, nothing comes home. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
• Ultimately, however, the potential for a violation of one's privacy is typically out of their hands after purchasing from an online e-tailer or store.
• As opposed to e-tailers, micro-finance is a distinctly low technology business.
• Other frequent and potentially long-lived words include e-book, e-business, e-commerce, e-shopping, and e-tailer, but the popularity of such coinages as e-ballot, e-grocer, e-zine, and many others remains to be seen.

   

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Question of the Day #1053

Grease Monkey, SpeeDee Oil Change Receive Industry Award

From the headline of this article at Aftermarket News.

  上記の文では、Grease Monkeyは社名ですが、本来の意味は？
In the sentence above, Grease Monkey is the name of a company but what does "grease monkey" really mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈俗〉〔自動車などの〕整備士

   

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.


 

Examples

• Many of his pilots began their careers as grease monkeys, taking apart, cleaning and reassembling engines.
• I got the grease monkey to fix my car.
• My brother in law is a grease monkey. He repairs Fords, so he always has plenty of work.
• `An old salt like me and a grease monkey like you, owners of one of the finest hotels in the world! - St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT (1986)
• Here are some deep discounts on devices that will unleash your inner grease monkey. —The Editors, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020

   

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Question of the Day #1052

On a Wing and a Prayer

From the headline of this article at Plugged In.

  上記の文で、on a wing and a prayerの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "on a wing and a prayer" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

辛うじて、やっとのことで、運にすがって

   

Answer

According to the Collins Dictionary:

with only the slightest hope of succeeding

 

語源

英辞郎によると、

ひどい損傷を受けて帰還する戦闘機が、搭乗員の祈りによってやっと飛んでいるように感じられたことから。

 

Etymology

According to The Phrase Finder:

This phrase originated during WWII. The earliest reference that I can find to it is in the 1942 film The Flying Tigers. The screenplay, which was written by Kenneth Gamet and Barry Trivers, has John Wayne's character Captain Jim Gordon says this in a reference to the flight of replacement pilots:

Gordon: Any word on that flight yet?
Rangoon hotel clerk: Yes sir, it was attacked and fired on by Japanese aircraft. She's coming in on one wing and a prayer.

   

Examples

• With hardly any funding and a staff of six, they were operating on a wing and a prayer.
• His whole budget was based on a wing and a prayer. The Guardian (2021)
• When we opened our first salon, we did it on a wing and a prayer. Times, Sunday Times (2010)
• Last Sunday, out of desperation and on a wing and a prayer, Colmenares and his wife took their children, ranging from age 16 months to 12 years old and marched across the Rio Grande. —Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2022
• And the new fashion of last-minute ticket buying is confounding an industry that is forced to invest most of its capital up front, on a wing and a prayer. —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022

   

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Question of the Day #1051

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene targeted in swatting attempt on Christmas Day

From the headline of this article at USA Today.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

【名】 スワッティング◆悪質ないたずら（または嫌がらせ）。「凶悪犯人が立てこもっている」などと虚偽の通報をして、第三者（いたずらのターゲット）の家に特殊部隊(SWAT)が派遣されるように仕向けること。

   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

the action of making a false report of a serious emergency so that a SWAT team (= a group of officers trained to deal with dangerous situations) will go to a person's home, by someone who wants to frighten, upset, or cause problems for that person

 

Examples

• Swatting has become an increasingly popular harassment tactic among online gamers.
• A "swatting" hoax led to police shooting dead a 28-year-old man.
• The man who allegedly placed the "swatting" call has been arrested.
• But it reached a new level of notoriety when 28-year-old Andrew Finch was inadvertently killed by police in his Kansas home, a victim of a swatting prank in December 2017.
• Swatting is not new – it was on the FBI’s radar as early as 2008 – but its origins are murky.

   

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