marines

Idioms  

1. see tell it to the marines.

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Example Sentences

Guest: Jonathan M. Katz, journalist and the author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire and author of theracket.news newsletter.

From Slate

“This is what we have the navy for. We have trained our marines for this,” he said in an interview at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal

The US officials quoted by CBS suggested that America could mount an operation like one conducted last month when US Marines and special operation forces working with the US Coast Guard seized The Skipper, a large crude oil tanker flagged out of Guyana, after the vessel left port in Venezuela.

From BBC

That was followed by the largest military buildup the region has seen in decades, with an aircraft carrier, naval strike vessels, logistical ships and thousands of Marines amassing off the coast of Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal

Marines rappelling from helicopters onto a civilian oil tanker.

From Salon

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