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If the eye is blind, why do you have to turn it? 155.212.44.58 20:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because you're (metaphorically) turning the blind eye TOWARDS the thing you're delibrately ignoring. In other words, only looking at it with your blind eye, thus not seeing it. 63.21.22.40 06:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would "UNODIR" go under "related topics"?

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Would UNODIR (unless otherwise directed...) operations be considered a related topic? Or "Command by Negation"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_by_negation

UNODIR was popularized by navy SEALS in Vietnam where, due to high amount of operational leaks, they started asking for where they can't go or what they can't do within a large area, and they file UNODIR reports that reads "unless otherwise directly, this unit shall conduct search and destroy in areas X, Y, and Z for period of ______" so even if this is leaked it is of no operational use to the spies. Kschang77 (talk) 22:56, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction between this and Battle of Copenhagen

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See here here. Esszet (talk) 02:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Press home

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Geo Swan: According to the OED, to press home means "to present (an argument) forcefully; to emphasize (a fact or opinion)." That is not the sense in "press the attack." Your revert was incorrect. JBH23 (talk) 17:29, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

pour encourager les autres: To make an example of someone as a warning or incentive to others. The reference is to the British admiral John Byng, who was executed by firing squad in 1757 after his admittedly fairly modest naval force failed to press home an attack on the French-held island of Minorca during the Seven Years' War (1750-57).
Numerous targets were sighted; but, due to frequent squalls and her own limitations, she was unable to press home an attack.
So far as I am concerned, this is an appropriate phrase - one used in dictionaries. Geo Swan (talk) 22:32, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]