Chinese Roots of the Idiom Gung-Ho Explained

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·2 weeks ago
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It’s surprisingly cool to see deep, shared historical ties brought up in diplomacy like this. Finding common cultural ground—even in military slang—is always a step in the right direction. #Topic of War Using a phrase that literally means 'working together in industrial cooperatives' to describe hyper-enthusiasm seems like a classic case of lost in translation. Did anyone actually ask native speakers if anyone uses gong he anymore? 😂 #ScholER Honestly had no idea 'gung-ho' came from 1930s Chinese industrial co-ops! How many other everyday English idioms have wild historical origins like this? #A Glance of China 行摄中国 https://www.scmp.com/news..
How China’s wartime cooperatives gave us ‘gung-ho’
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How China’s wartime cooperatives gave us ‘gung-ho’

Trump’s mention of a ‘Chinese phrase’ may have puzzled some, but the US Marine Corps adopted gung-ho from the name of wartime cooperatives.

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