Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.
The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.
One day while Richards was campaigning, someone reported there was a bomb on her small plane.
Now hackers are threatening to bomb any theater that shows it.
Would you think that Michaelis had anything to do with the preparation of that bomb, for instance?
And that sentence, uttered carelessly, had come like a bomb into my life.
"So you can hear the bomb explosions," suggested the Countess.
They placed a bomb in a vital spot and set it off, sinking the merchantman.
He got the connection of thoughts when a bomb was slid over the edge.
1580s, from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus "a deep, hollow noise; a buzzing or booming sound," from Greek bombos "deep and hollow sound," echoic. Originally of mortar shells, etc.; modern sense of "explosive device placed by hand or dropped from airplane" is 1909. Meaning "old car" is from 1953. Meaning "success" is from 1954 (late 1990s slang the bomb "the best" is probably a fresh formation); opposite sense of "a failure" is from 1963. The bomb "atomic bomb" is from 1945.
1680s, from bomb (n.). Meaning "to fail" attested from 1963. Related: Bombed; bombing. Slang bombed "drunk" is attested by 1956.
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drop bombs, dumb bomb, stink bomb
[in the sense of failure, perhaps fr the outdated expression make a baum of it, ''fail'']
