take the King's or Queen's shilling

take the King's or Queen's shilling Brit. enlist as a soldier 〈英〉入伍, 当兵。 [ORIGIN: with reference to the former practice of paying a shilling to a soldier who enlisted.]

• general of the air force
• lookest
• Distinguished Service Medal
• false target
• pick a (或 someone's) pocket
• Juarez, Benito Pablo
• any old thing / place / time etc
• dope pusher
• pappose
• Jefferson Memoria
• tread out
• Langley, William
• assumed
• Gamays
• nitrogenisation
• overlap
• unsonsy
• take sb in
• street-fightings
• trial balloon
• with admiration
• swamp cypresses
• give the palm to
• undraws
• inofficial
• scalded skin syndrome
• germinatively
• gym rats
• surface car
• autocues
• make your way (to/towards sth)
• meta system
• stop-loss clause
• sth is loaded against sb / sth
• acariasis
• stokerless
• ringleaders
• cytosols
• Backus-Naur forms
• open-necked
• accelerated reader
• immortalized cell
• drop-ships
• basilica
• show bizs
• seditionary
• consumer terrorist
• stir one's stumps
• sea squab
• appal
• brandy face
• antimonious
• Gotland
• brown bullhead
• proton accelerators
• equinal
• unwaged
• icelandic low
• farced
• substantialised
• yo-ho
• hand-in
• sulfurous
• return wall
• ethyl ester
• bornest
• chousing
• principals
• ax job
• cuttlefish
• matzo meals
• under the cloak of
• blue-rinse set
• steering committees
• excitation volume
• shofars
• enigmata
• dissatisfy
• break a jest
• nonobservant
• sidonians
• nitrosyls
• California rose
• equivalent operational capacity
• sair
• girdler
• ready-to-eat
• wade into
• museque
• EBW
• conjunctivitises
• dermatomal
• localises
• depravedness
• squamous-cell
• Pickett, George Edward
• idls
• reaction wheels
• digital switching
• source time