| 释义 |
Royal Navy situation
noun
a need for money UK
A pun on SUBBeing in a Royal Navy situation (in need of a sub) I waited till ‘er [the speaker’s wife] had climbed the wooden hill to Bedfordshire [gone to bed], got on the dog [telephone] and rang the number. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, pp. 146–147, 1994 |