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Hi,
This is short for Absent Without Leave and is used particularly in a military sense for someone who has taken leave without permission and is therefore missing. The expression is to go AWOL.
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Jul 14, 2009 22:16 pm AWOL |
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AWOL or awol - adj.
Absent without leave.
n.
One who is absent without leave.
absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:59 am AWOL |
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Mr. Alan, can we say that someone: "has taken leave without permission"?
I think that 'to take leave' is 'to get permission', am I correct?
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:29 am Meaning of AWOL |
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| I need an explanation for ,,american pie'' in american english and ,,american pie" in british english.It's a difference between them??? In USA is sweet and the one from UK is made by meat?! :oops: :oops: :oops: :D |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:20 am Meaning of AWOL |
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"American Pie" is a strange idiom. We say that something or someone is "as American as apple pie".
In the 1970s some singer had a hit with a stupid, incoherent song that said, "Bye-bye Miss American Pie", which I guess was supposed to mean that someone was saying good-bye to some wholesome "all-American girl".
So "American pie" isn't a food. It's just some kind of description of some typically wholesome all-American person, almost always a girl. It's also the title of a movie from the 1980s. |
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:24 am Meaning of AWOL |
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Ok Jamie..thanks!!! But someone told me that is the most traditional American dessert.” Pie has become so much a part of American culture throughout the years, that we now commonly use the term “as American as apple pie.”
In Uk doesn't have another meaning, besides the movie? :roll: :roll: :roll: :?:
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:36 am Meaning of AWOL |
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Hi Chris,
We would only use this corny expression here with a slight sense of ridicule.
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| #9 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:54 am Meaning of AWOL |
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| Thanks Mr Alan! :o :o :wink: |
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| #10 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:22 pm Meaning of AWOL |
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| Alan wrote: |
| We would only use this corny expression here with a slight sense of ridicule. |
We use it the same way. |
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