An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill;
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(idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill;
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A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill;
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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