Not in the armed forces it is not, officers are allways very literal minded. One of the thingssome of my other platoon mates fell for was asking for the right to smoke. In my native language there are a lot of ways to do this, but very few of those are literally correct, so once they asked if they could have a cigarette with a phrase that literaly means if they could pull a cigarete, so they got premission to pull a cigarette on a string through the barracs making train noises.
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