all standing
English
Adverb
- (Britain, naval) Brought to a sudden halt.
- 2008, Robert C. Stem, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat
- […] and then with a terrific crash the ship brought up all standing, and we were hurled against the bridge screens by the force of the collision.
- 2008, Robert C. Stem, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat
- (Britain, naval) Wearing one's clothes, for example while sleeping.
- 1917, Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia (page 77)
- A couple of girls were standing alongside an ambulance drawn up next to the lorry, out of which they had apparently just crawled, having slept all standing, as all had I suppose.
- 1925, Fitzhugh Green, Our Naval Heritage (page 106)
- No man had aught to cover him save his blankets, in which he slept “all standing,” i.e., with his clothes on.
- 1917, Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia (page 77)
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