zero hour

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English

Noun

zero hour (plural zero hours)

Synonym of H-hour.
- 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:
  I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive.
- 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, 1972 paperback edition, London: Faber, page 339:
  Zero hour was forty-five minutes after midnight.Two companies were to attack on a 600-yard front […] .
- 1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château‎, performed by Elton John:
  She packed my bags last night, pre-flight / Zero hour 9 a.m. / And I'm gonna be high / As a kite by then

Translations

Translations

German: Stunde Null f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: klokken H
Polish: godzina zero f

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