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sitzkrieg|ˈsɪtskriːg|
Also Sitzkrieg.
[Formed on the analogy of Blitzkrieg, as if f. G. sitz-en to sit + krieg war.]
A war, or part of a war, marked by a (relative) absence of active hostilities; spec. that phase of the war of 1939–45 lasting from September 1939 to May 1940; a ‘phoney war’. Also fig.
1940N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 4/7 The R.A.F. referred to the war as a ‘Sitzkrieg’, which it translated as ‘sit-down war’. 1940Newsweek 11 Mar. 28/2 The European ‘sitzkrieg’ has definitely taught the usually turbulent Balkan states that their safety and independence can best be attained through at least a modicum of unity. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 12 Nov. 1/6 (heading) Temporary ‘sitzkrieg’ on Garigliano sector. 1954W. K. Hancock Country & Calling vii. 187 The sitzkreig had at least given me a golden chance to visit West Africa and had thereby enabled me to finish my book. 1967B. B. Gilbert Britain Since 1918 iv. 118 As the German conquest of Poland had been termed a ‘blitzkrieg’, a lightning war, the new phase of the war that lasted from the end of September [1939] until the beginning of April was frequently designated a ‘sitzkrieg’. 1970Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Dec. 3/1 (heading) Old men prepare for sit-in battle... Thirty-six old men.. yesterday settled down to a ‘sitzkrieg’ in the Battle of Rosebank—the Glebe, Sydney, aged men's home. 1980Christian Sci. Monitor (Midwestern ed.) 4 Dec. 6/1 Most observers think the two armies will become involved in a ‘sitzkrieg’, meaning a long military waiting game. |
