Comic cuts: A colloquial term for the "Intelligence Summary" issued daily by Headquarters of Corps, Divisions and Brigades, displayed on notice boards and read publicly in orders. As a certain amount of the information given was mere propaganda, and often of a somewhat romancing nature, it was generally received more of less derisively among men at the front in the war. The phrase came from the name of a popular comic paper. [1]
References / notes
- ↑ Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.62.
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