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"Go for Broke" ... meaning : to go the distance, chance all on a desired outcome .... not used much anymore but post WWII very popular. It is the motto for the 100th/4442nd which was the most decorated regiment in the US military that served in WWII. An all Japanese-American unit.
Other words are not so politically correct going back to WWII you have Hun, Jap, Dago, Ruskie, ....just about every ethnicity under the sun had an equal opportunity to be insulted. Korea and Vietnam brought us Gook and Chink ...
Very different from the "nickname" phenomena of Yank, Brit and Aussie.
Amazing isn't it, how the other guy must be objectified when we are aiming guns at each other .... or, sadly, maybe not.
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