英语词汇have one-s number on it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	have one-s number on it
词源	have one’s number on it. The widely accepted belief in the American military that the bullet, grenade, shell, or bomb that kills one is marked by fate with one’s number. Number could re- fer to one’s serial number; American soldiers all wore identity tags or dog tags at the time the expression was first recorded during World War I.
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