camp candlestick
camp candlestick
1. obsolete An empty bottle, due to its use as a candlestick in army camps. We found him passed out among myriad camp candlesticks.
2. obsolete A bayonet. He strapped his knife to his rifle as a sort of makeshift camp candlestick.
See also: camp, candlestick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- candlestick
- autem cackler
- turn about
- mot
- autem mort
- be kicked to the curb
- curb
- get kicked to the curb
- sham
- end up in the knacker's yard