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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
on the beach en · ADP
Meanings
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(idiomatic) Removed or retired from an active shipboard position in the navy or merchant navy.
Ericson had been axed from the navy in 1927, after ten years’ service: he had been on the beach for two hard years[.]
1951, Nicholas Monsarrat, chapter 1, in The Cruel Sea, London: Cassell:[O]fficers received only half pay when not on active service. Even Horatio Nelson spent five years “on the beach”[.]
2023, Evan Wilson, The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars, University of Massachusetts Press:
Relateds
grounded · furloughed