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unleash Chiang

unleash Chiang verb: to release powerful forces and viciously attack.

Verb

unleash Chiang (third-person singular simple present unleashes Chiang, present participle unleashing Chiang, simple past and past participle unleashed Chiang)

  1. (figuratively, humorous, informal, ironic, often) To release powerful forces and viciously attack.
    • We remember the promise of the present administration to unleash Chiang Kai-shek and his forces, meaning they would return some day to the mainland to liberate China and its people.1955, John McCormack, Congressional Record v. 101, page 1238
    • The Republican Bluster and Bluff. Four years ago the Republican Party boasted of being able to produce a foreign policy which was to free the Communist satellites, unleash Chiang Kai-shek, repudiate the wartime agreements, and reverse the policy of containing Communist expansion.1956, Democratic Party, Platforms of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party 1956, page 3

Examples of unleash Chiang in a sentence

  • He had a bit of a weak serve, and it was his way of making fun of it: Time to unleash Chiang!2006, Dorothy Bush Koch, My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush:
  • The last point I would make is – and I said this yesterday and I repeat – what’s about to – you’re about to see – we’re going to unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days.2026 March 3, Marco Rubio, US Department of State:

Forms of unleash Chiang

third-person singular presentunleashes Chiang
present participleunleashing Chiang
past participleunleashed Chiang
pastunleashed Chiang

Origin of unleash Chiang

“Unleash Chiang” was originally a slogan from the late 1940s and early 1950s used by anti-communist American hawks for more vigorous aid to Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan, so as to enable him to counter Mao Zedong, Mao's government and even invade the mainland. Given the relative weakness and of the Republic of China compared to that of the People’s Republic of China, this was originally an absurd and ironic phrase used by their opponents. This phrase was then used jokingly by George H. W. Bush to either refer to his own weak tennis serve or to rally his tennis partners ("mocking the right-wing nuts of his generation", Brad DeLong 2005). In 2005, Jeb Bush (possibly after having heard his father's tennis cries but not knowing the origin of the phrase) presented Marco Rubio with a golden sword, after telling a story about the mystical warrior "Chang" who "believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society." Today, the phrase is sometimes used in earnest by some right-wing Americans who like Jeb Bush may be unaware of the phrase's origins and sometimes corrupt it as "unleash Chang". William Safire (2008)...

Questions about unleash Chiang

What does unleash Chiang mean?
Unleash Chiang means to release powerful forces and viciously attack.
How do you use unleash Chiang in a sentence?
He had a bit of a weak serve, and it was his way of making fun of it: Time to unleash Chiang!
What part of speech is unleash Chiang?
Unleash Chiang is a verb.
What is the past tense of unleash Chiang?
The past tense of unleash Chiang is unleashed Chiang.

Words near unleash Chiang in the dictionary

  1. unlearns
  2. unlearnt
  3. unleasable
  4. unleased
  5. unleash
  6. unleash Chiang
  7. unleashable
  8. unleashed
  9. unleashed Chiang
  10. unleasher
  11. unleashers

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