Ho Chi Minh sandals, the Glossary
The Ho Chi Minh sandals (Vietnamese dép lốp "tire sandal") are a form of sandal made from discarded tires.[1]
Table of Contents
4 relations: A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Ho Chi Minh, Khăn rằn, Viet Cong.
- American English idioms
- Repurposing
- Sandals
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by the noted lexicographer of the English language Eric Partridge.
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Ho Chi Minh
italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.
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Khăn rằn
The khăn rằn (From khăn, 'towel, scarf', and, 'striped'; Chữ Nôm: 䘜吝) is a traditional checkered black and white scarf which has been adapted from the Cambodian krama. Ho Chi Minh sandals and khăn rằn are Vietnamese words and phrases.
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Viet Cong
The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.
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See also
American English idioms
- 800-pound gorilla
- Average Joe
- Baby mama
- Bang for the buck
- Bootstrapping
- Catbird seat
- Chinaman's chance
- Coug it
- D'oh!
- Eating crow
- Film at 11
- Get the hell out of Dodge
- Going postal
- Ho Chi Minh sandals
- Hot take
- I know it when I see it
- I say it's spinach
- Indian giver
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- Ladies who lunch
- Loose lips sink ships
- Nancy Reagan defense
- Nigger in the woodpile
- Nosebleed section
- Peanut gallery
- Playing by ear
- Popularity contest
- Race card
- Rainbow Over Texas
- Sacred cow (idiom)
- Say Uncle
- Seeing the elephant
- Shouting fire in a crowded theater
- The creek don't rise
- The dog ate my homework
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease
- Tinkerbell effect
- You kids get off my lawn!
Repurposing
- 32X
- AC adapter
- Adaptive reuse
- Appropriation (art)
- Automobile auxiliary power outlet
- Binding waste
- Cassette tape adapter
- Catalogne (rug)
- Church reordering
- Code reuse
- Composite video
- Derivative works
- Ewald Colliery
- FM transmitter (personal device)
- Found object
- Ho Chi Minh sandals
- MacGyver (1985 TV series)
- Mashup
- Mashup (music)
- Molotov Man
- Pawn shops
- Pawnbroker
- Pepe (textiles)
- Prop
- ReadyBoost
- Repurposing
- Reuse of human excreta
- Reversible lane
- Road diet
- Robert The
- Self-competition
- Solar water disinfection
- USB dead drop
- Urban retrofitting
- Used good
Sandals
- Abarka
- Avarca
- Bernardo Sandals
- Biblical sandals
- Birkenstock
- Caligae
- Cantabrian albarcas
- Carbatina
- Ciocia
- Clog
- Discalced
- Espadrille
- Flip-flops
- Flipsters
- Furlane (shoe)
- Geta (footwear)
- Grendene
- Hnyat-phanat
- Ho Chi Minh sandals
- Huarache (running shoe)
- Huarache (shoe)
- Jack Rogers (retailer)
- Jelly shoes
- Jipsin
- Lêkê
- Mituri
- Naot
- Okobo
- Platform shoe
- Pulhoer
- Rope-soled shoe
- Saltwater sandals
- Sandal
- Sandal-bearer
- Sandals of Jesus Christ
- Slide (footwear)
- Slingback
- Socks and sandals
- Source Sandals
- T-bar sandal
- Talaria
- Träskor
- Trochadi
- Uwabaki
- Wörishofer
- Waraji
- Zori
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_sandals
Also known as Dep lop, Dép lốp, Ho Chi Minh sandal, Tire sandal, Tire sandals.