blitzkriegとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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blitzkrieg (plural blitzkriegs)

Tanks, motor vehicles, and aircraft are essential in bringing a blitzkrieg operation into success.

1. A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
   • 1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

     I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

2. (figurative) Sudden activity; a flurry.
   • 2025 January 2, Simon Montlake, “Electing a speaker is first test for GOP with razor-thin control of House”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     President-elect Donald Trump has promised a blitzkrieg of executive actions and legislation after he takes office Jan. 20.

   • 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Many Democrats have felt hopeless during a blitzkrieg of a presidency that is testing the limits of constitutional authority, including over the deportations of migrants, halting of congressionally approved spending, and punishment of universities accused of not protecting the rights of Jews during intense spells of pro-Palestinian activism.

派生語

• blitz
• glitzkrieg

参考

• sitzkrieg

Further reading

• blitzkrieg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia