I'm 55 years old and all my life I've used and heard others use the
phrase, "Don't give me any flak..." Only in the past month or so did I
discover that it's a wartime acronym for the unwieldy German word:
fliegerabwehrkanone (flier defense gun). I knew it meant antiaircraft
fire, but never knew the German word until I ran across it by accident
under "flak" in Webster's dictionary.
-- Steve M
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