Talk:rocket

Needs the sense of a communication (letter, telegram), in "send a rocket". (UK) As in "he had a complaint about the service, and sent a rocket to the managing director" Robert Ullmann 17:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you have an example of that use that you can find on the web?Wolfkeeper 13:32, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * pulls up six hits, including this:
 * 1980, David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance, Dutton, ISBN 9780525206637, page 203,
 * While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, [William Joseph “Wild Bill”] Donovan had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. Solborg flew to Lisbon and then on to Washington to face out his problem with Donovan.
 * overall, they all seem to be military and negative; something like “angry letter from a superior”, maybe — but I'm judging from a small sample size.
 * —Ruakh TALK 13:46, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Somewhere or other I've seen the unsavoury phrase 'put a rocket up him'.Wolfkeeper 18:23, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Stephenson's Rocket
It has intrigued me for years, but how was Stephenson's Rocket named in 1829, when what we know as rockets were not around for almost a hundred years later.--Dmol 08:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)