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From: Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.06.28 (04) [E]

English "tank" also means a container, usually a large metal one for storing
liquids (water tank, oil tank, gasoline tank), or to hold gasses under
pressure (oxygen tank, scuba tank).  It came to mean "an armored, tracked
vehicle" in World War I, when the British, in order to maintain operational
security while the vehicles were still in the design and development stage,
referred to the new vehicles as "tanks" to disguise the true nature of what
was being developed.

Another use of "tank" in English is for a jail cell, especially for holding
people who have been arrested for public drunkenness – usually called a
"drunk tank."

There is also the phrase "to be in the tank (for someone)," meaning to be
someone's supporter, and usually implying that the person being supported
has paid off the supporter or promised some favor, or suggesting that
someone who should be impartial is really working to help one side.

Kevin Caldwell

From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Words"

Beste Ron,

seeing you being busy with your new projects we should not forget 'Beyond
The Pale'.

*In category 'False Friends':*

E: 'tank', meaning an armoured vessel

G: 'Tank', meaning a bin, a container
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