pre-dawn vertical insertion

pre-dawn vertical insertion
   an invasion by parachutists
   Neither inserting your card for clocking on on early shift nor starting the day with copulation but how the American invaders of Grenada on 27 October 1983 described their mission.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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