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http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/do-use-something-in-anger http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/do-use-something-in-an... (I had never heard this idiom b

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/do-use-something-in-anger http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/do-use-something-in-an... (I had never heard this idiom before)

twoquestions 9y ago
I've heard it mostly in military contexts, like "That ship has never fired her guns in anger", but otherwise not.