Dear Mr.Putin, we will bomb Syria at your earliest convenience. It's up to you to decide when and where ... "
Yours truly
US- President Donald J.Trump
Liliputins. What the hell is it ?
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jungle telegraph
An informal means of communication or information, especially gossip. Used most commonly in the phrase "hear (something) on the jungle telegraph." (Analogous to "hear (something) through the grapevine.") Primarily heard in UK. I heard on the jungle telegraph that Stacy and Mark are getting a divorce! A: "How do you know the company is going bust?" B: "I heard it on the jungle telegraph."
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hear (something) on the jungle telegraph
To hear or learn a something through an informal means of communication, especially gossip. Primarily heard in UK. I heard on the jungle telegraph that Stacy and Mark are getting a divorce! A: "How do you know the company is going bust?" B: "I heard it on the jungle telegraph."
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the bush telegraph
Word of mouth; the grapevine. Don't expect that to stay a secret in this office—the bush telegraph is swift around here.
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telegraph one's punches
1. Fig. to signal, unintentionally, what blows one is about to strike. (Boxing.) Wilbur used to telegraph his punches until his trainer worked with him. Don't telegraph your punches, kid! You'll be flat on your back in twenty seconds.
2. Fig. to signal, unintentionally, one's intentions. When you go in there to negotiate, don't telegraph your punches. Don't let them see that we're in need of this contract. The mediator telegraphed his punches, and we were prepared with a strong counterargument.
See also: punch, telegraph
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the bush telegraph
BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONED
The bush telegraph is the way in which information or news is passed from person to person in conversation. No, you didn't tell me, but I heard it on the bush telegraph. Jean-Michel had heard of our impending arrival in Conflans long before we got there. The bush telegraph on the waterways is extremely effective. Note: This expression refers to a primitive method of communication where people scattered over a wide area beat drums to send messages to one another.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
bush telegraph
a rapid informal spreading of information or rumour; the network through which this takes place.
This expression originated in the late 19th century, referring to the network of informers who kept bushrangers informed about the movements of the police in the Australian bush or outback. Compare with hear something on the grapevine (at grapevine).
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
;bush ;telegraph
the spreading of news quickly from one person to another: Everyone knew about it before it was officially announced: the bush telegraph had been at work again. Bush in this phrase refers to the areas of wild land in Australia. Bush telegraph originally meant the people who informed bushrangers (= criminals who lived in the bush) about the movements of the police.
See also: bush, telegraph
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telegraph one’s punches
1. tv. to signal, unintentionally, what blows one is about to strike. (Boxing.) Don’t telegraph your punches, kid! You’ll be flat on your back in twenty seconds.
2. tv. to signal, unintentionally, one’s intentions. The mediator telegraphed his punches, and we were prepared with a strong counter argument.
See also: punch, telegraph
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Trump, who warned against telegraphing military action in Syria, telegraphs military action in Syria — again
by Aaron Blake
April 11 ;2018
Trump’s speech on infrastructure, and many other topics, in three minutes
President Trump on March 29 unveiled a plan in Richfield, Ohio, to modernize U.S. infrastructure. He also spoke about North Korea, the midterms and Syria. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
This post has been updated.
For a president who has routinely decried telegraphing military moves, Donald Trump has sure spent much of the past two weeks ... telegraphing his military moves.
It started two weeks ago, when Trump made a surprise announcement that the United States would "very soon" soon withdraw from Syria. Then came Wednesday morning, when he announced via Twitter that the United States would bomb Syria and taunted Russia for its threats to shoot down the missiles.
"Get ready Russia, because [missiles] will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'" Trump said.
But giving the likes of Russia advance notice of what's coming is something the Old Trump would say is the opposite of "smart." He railed against President Obama doing it in 2016 and said early in his presidency that he wouldn't repeat those mistakes. He said doing so would only tip off the enemy, and he even said it specifically about Syria.
Here's what he tweeted in 2013:
He added in April 2017 in remarks about Syria. “One of the things I think you've noticed about me is: Militarily, I don't like to say where I'm going and what I'm doing. I'm not saying I'm doing anything one way or the other.”
He later echoed that in an interview with “Fox and Friends” while talking about the situation in North Korea.
“I don't want to telegraph what I'm doing, or what I'm thinking,” he said. “I'm not like other administrations, where they say we're going to do this in four weeks and that. It doesn't work that way.”
Trump has regularly talked about how the Obama administration previewed an attack on Mosul in Iraq for so long that the Islamic State fortified itself for the coming attack.
“I have often said that General MacArthur and General Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way President Obama and Hillary Clinton try to recklessly announce their every move before it happens — like they did in Iraq — so that the enemy can prepare and adapt,” Trump said in his big speech about fighting terrorism in August 2016.
While discussing that and North Korea at a February 2017 news conference, Trump said he would apply a different approach.
“I don't talk about military, and I don't talk about certain other things — you're going to be surprised to hear that,” he said. “And by the way, my whole campaign, I'd say that. So I don't have to tell you. I don't want to be one of these guys that say, 'Yes, here's what we're going to do.' I don't have to do that. I don't have to tell you what I'm going to do in North Korea.”
Trump does seem to have less concern about telegraphing troop withdrawals, calling for getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan repeatedly on the campaign trail. But now that he's president, he's in a position to make such withdrawals happen rather quickly. The 2016 Trump would probably argue that announcing you're getting out of Syria before you do it might signal to the Islamic State that it can just bide its time until the United States leaves and then it will have only “other people” to contend with.
And the 2016/17 Trump would surely argue against giving Russia a heads-up that bombs are coming Syria's way. In fact, that's pretty much exactly what Trump said would have made Patton and MacArthur roll over in their graves.
Aaron Blake is senior political reporter for The Fix. A Minnesota native, he has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Hill newspaper. ; Follow @aaronblake