Flak vs Spiel - What's the difference?
flak | spiel |
Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
* 1964 , David John Cawdell Irving, The Destruction of Dresden ,
* 2007 , Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944 , footnote,
Anti-aircraft shell fire.
* 1943 November 29, Target: Germany'', in '' ,
* 1999 , Brian O'Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer ,
(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
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* 1990 , Joel H. Spring, The American School, 1642-1990 ,
(informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
* 2006 , , A Propaganda Model'', in 2006 [2001], Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner (editors), ''Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks , revised edition,
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
*1910 , Irving Berlin,
*:I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel
*:But three little words can explain how I feel
*20th century , Theodore Roethke, The Auction
*:The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk;
*:The bargains fell to bidders, one by one.
*:Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.
*:Old neighbors nudged each other at the fun.
A fast excuse or sales pitch.
As nouns the difference between flak and spiel
is that flak is ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells while spiel is game, play.flak
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(wikipedia flak)Alternative forms
* flack (adverse criticism and spokesperson senses)Noun
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- to consider whether the city was in February 1945 an undefended city within the meaning of the 1907 Hague Convention, it will be necessary to examine the establishment and subsequent total dispersal of the city's flak batteries, before the date of the triple blow.
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- He was promoted to general of flak' artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the ' flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe.
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- ''At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below.
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- I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it.
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- This filter Herman and Chomsky call “flak',” which refers to letters, speeches, phone calls, and other forms of group and individual complaints. Advertisers and broadcasters avoid programming content that might cause large volumes of ' flak .
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- AIM head, Reed Irvine's diatribes are frequently published, and right-wing network flaks who regularly assail the “liberal media,” such as Michael Ledeen, are given Op-ed column space, sympathetic reviews, and a regular place on talk shows as experts.