"Hit the silk" nghĩa là gì?

Ước được chạm vào váy lụa. Photo courtesy Mitch.

'Hit the silk' (từ lóng) nghĩa là nhảy dù (slang: to parachute from an aircraft), thoát hiểm, bỏ chạy (bail out).

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American and allied paratroopers hit the silk Saturday morning for the 33rd annual Leapfest parachute competition.

In 1944, when he was 20, during one of the dozens of bombing missions Bush flew as a naval aviator, his plane was hit and Bush ordered his two fellow crewmen to “hit the silk!”

Salman figuratively hit the silk himself this week by leaving the Salman Partners investment firm he founded.

If Congress, after listening to the people, wants to bail on the campaign against ISIS, now is the time to hit the silk, not in the middle of an executive war.

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