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APAD: Let's roll.

7grizzly
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Meaning:

Todd Beamer (1968 - 2001) was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 when it

was hijacked on September 11th 2001.

 

   He was accorded hero status in the USA when it was discovered that he had

   helped organise an attempt to regain control of the plane from the hijackers.

   His last audible words, overhead during a phone call, were:

 

     Are you guys ready? Let's roll.

     (The transcript of an onboard conversation overheard by phone operator Lisa

     Jefferson after Beamer had just finished speaking to her.)

 

Background:

   The facts of the hijackings on September 11th 2001 are well known. Beamer was

   a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was initially bound for

   San Francisco. His role in the tragic events involved him making phone calls

   to alert ground staff and attempting to disarm the hijackers who had

   commandeered the plane.

 

   He informed an airline representative that some of the plane's passengers

   were planning to `jump on' the hijackers and land the plane.

 

   The outcome of the rescue attempt isn't precisely known. Some minutes later,

   the plane crashed in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

 

- www.phrases.org.uk [edited]

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Since 911, the connotation of "let's roll" might have changed forever.

 

I love idioms for exactly what they are: a group of words established by usage

as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. To the

uninitiated, people talking in idioms and slang might as well be communicating

in Morse code. A friend posted a shot of a wierd-looking twig and asked "Why is

this piece of wood flipping me the bird?" and it took me 10min to find what it

meant in the dictionary, not under 'flip,' but 'bird.'

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最西边的岛上
2 楼
So much respect 4 Beamer, real hero and Let's roll !!
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最西边的岛上
3 楼
hahaha,hahaha, sorry can't help but laugh ("bird";-)
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7grizzly
4 楼
I told my learning experience and they all laughed :-)
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最西边的岛上
5 楼
hahaha. don't know any Morse code otherThan SOS ;-))
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移花接木
6 楼
Unimaginable horror, watch 1self diving to hell
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暖冬cool夏
7 楼
哈哈,flip sb the bird:) 刚刚查了字典才知道。like straightforward idioms
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移花接木
8 楼
Flipping xxx sounds nasty, give a finger's same sh*t tho
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7grizzly
9 楼
Ordinary people, extraordinary courage.
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7grizzly
10 楼
While doomed, Beamer perhaps escaped the fear of death.
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7grizzly
11 楼
Idioms are so much fun!
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最西边的岛上
12 楼
I probably would join him if there, better fightThanWait2die
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最西边的岛上
13 楼
yes!! my hat off to all of them!!
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最西边的岛上
14 楼
"Flowers are only flowers because they fall"-Shogun
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天边一片白云
15 楼
一下子学了两个idioms.
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