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When the Balloon Goes Up:
The Communicator's Guide to Cris
"From creating a communication response plan to selecting and training spokespeople, Ballon is packed with specific, crisis-tested procedures, suggestions and tips all designed to give communicators the confidence and skills to prepare for ...
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When the Balloon Goes Up: Barrage Balloons for Low-level Air ...
Barrage balloons were effectively used to assist in countering low-level air attacks in both World War I and II. Great Britain was convinced of its value and liberally employed aerial barrages throughout both conflicts.
Franklin J. Hillson, AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL., Air University (U.S.). Air Command and Staff College, 1988
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
... are down when matters become very serious or critical: When the chips are
down a man shows what he really is. when the balloon goes up when the eagle
flies when the balloon goes up (coll) when the operation, action, etc. begins (
usually ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
start/set/keep the ball rolling to start or keep something going, eip a conversation:
He can be relied on to start the ball rolling at parties. balloon when the balloon
goes up (in/) when the trouble starts; when something expected (often feared) ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... balloon goes up when (or before) the action or trouble starts. informal The
balloon alluded to is probably one released to mark the start of an event.
1959Punch The international rules of war are apt to be waived when the balloon
goes up.
Deep down we think that quality of our life depends on doing things right.
Perhaps this goes some of the way to explaining the shock reactions to illness,
accident and disability that we find when the balloon goes up. To try to illustrate
this, ...
Martin Winbolt-Lewis, 2013
start/ set/keep the ball rolling to start or keep something going, esp a
conversation: He can be relied on to start the ball rolling at parties. baHoon when
the balloon goes up (inf) when the trouble starts; when something expected (
often feared) ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
1959 Punch The international rules of war are apt to be waived when the balloon
goes up. baHpark in the ballpark in a particular area or range. informal 0 The
phrase originated in the USA, where a ballpark is a baseball ground. bamboo the
...
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
BALLOON when the balloon goes up when the events become critical, when the
trouble starts He signs up new projects in great style but he is not around when
the balloon goes up. BANANAS go bananas go crazy; lose control over oneself ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
It goes back to the same root as *EALL. The phrase when the balloon goes up, '
when the action or trouble begins', has been used in Britain since the 1920s. It
may refer to the release of a balloon to mark the beginning of a race. By contrast,
to ...
