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foxhole

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1. foxhole - Noun

2. foxhole - Verb

Meaning

a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire

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I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two. Stephen Lang

I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole. Robert Lucas, Jr.

My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it. Bill Mauldin

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back. Lee Benson

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood. Sylvester Stallone

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. French Proverb

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