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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Vocabulary

Idioms used in diplomatic language

What do the following idioms mean?

"salami speech" and "man-on-the-horseback"

  

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I've never read or heard these things said in my life. Where did yo find then?

— Clive

  • I've never read or heard these things said in my life.
  • Where did yo find then?
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I've never read or heard these things said in my life. Where did yo find then?

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A "man on horseback" is a military leader whose popularity or power is such that he could take over the government.

I'm not familiar with "salami speech".

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Hossein Salami is commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. He gave a speech in February in which he threatened the US and Israel. Maybe that's what you saw.

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