| 释义 |
million dollar wound
noun
during war, a wound that was serious enough to get a soldier sent home but not so serious as to affect the rest of their life US, 1947- “So long, you miserable sonsabitches,” he yells. “I just got that million-dollar wound.” — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 219, 1949
- “Well, maybe it will be right for me to go home. I got a million dollar wound.” — Mark Baker, Nam, p. 98, 1981
- Some examples of “million dollar wounds” were loss of toes, fingers, hearing, and some stomach wounds. Million dollar wounds were an “automatic ticket” back to The World. — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 327, 1990
|