10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIP-EMMA»
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OME PHONETIC ABBREVIATIONS Ack Ack: Antiaircraft guns Ack Emma: AM (
morning) Ack Pip Emma: APM, ArmyProvost Esses Emma:SM,Sergeant Major O
Pip: Observation Post Marshall Don Rs: Despatch Riders Emma Gees: ...
Peter Doyle, Julian Walker,
2011
... pip emma signal time.” The Pioneer waved up a havildar and a couple of men
with a tracing-tape, and laid it down in an irregular oval around the site of the
picquet. Then, calling up two platoons of his company, he set them to work
building ...
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A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front: Memoirs from a WWI ...
similar from a distance that they are made Pip, Emma, Don, Vic, and so on. Thus
a.m. becomes ak emma, p.m. becomes pip emma, an observation post, O.P.,
becomes O pip, V.A.D. would be vic ak don, and so on.The guileless mannerin ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
1681). pip emma. Mil. slang for P.M. See also ask emma. pipi. Maori name of a
shell-fish. pipistrel. Small bat. It. pipistrello, “a night bat or reare-mouse" (Flor.),
perverted var. of vipistrello, for vespertillo, VL. *vesperlillus, for vesperlilio, bat,
from ...
His watch (curiously it was not broken) said 10:19, whether Ack Emma or Pip
Emma he could not tell down here, except that it could not be, it must not be Pip
Emma; he could not, he must not have been here going on twenty hours; the
seven ...
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The Clothier and Furnisher
So — ping ! up go the shutters at 1.30 pip emma. Anyhow — I ventured again
later in the week — in the afternoon,. This time, I told myself, there will be no
excuse for His Nibs not being at home. But there was ! The shutters were up, and,
what ...
The wine we can purchase or drink only between 11.30 " ac emma" (a.m.) and
1.30 "pip emma" (midday), and 6 — 7 " pip emma " (at night), when the esta-
tninets, cabarets, debits de boissons, etc., are open. They charge 2^d. for a small
glass ...
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The trail of the barbarians: being "L'outrage des barbares"
You need from IK45 pip emma of 8/8/17 to n.57 pip emma of 9/8/17 for the
rendering of almost any French sentence ! . . . But, in spite of lack of leisure, I will
quarrel with the Master as to his employment of one word : the word "irreparable.
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Murder on the Home Front: A True Story of Morgues, ...
Screaming heardby neighbors at 12:15 pip emma [p.m.] today, sir. Husband seen
to leave house in a hurry at 12:30 pip emma, sir. Encountered PC in street (one of
our chaps, sir), and told himhe'd just killed hiswife. PCwentto look and sure ...
Give it another hour then tell everybody I will be making a speech to the nation at
3 pip emma. Got that, 3 pip emma. That ought to keep them quiet.” “Is that today
or tomorrow, Mr President?” “How's that?” “Today or tomorrow, Mr President ...