Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FLAK
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun
(noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
fire, attack, flak, flack, blast
(noun) intense adverse criticism; “Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party”; “the government has come under attack”; “don’t give me any flak”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flak (countable and uncountable, plural flaks)
Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]
Synonyms: ack-ack, AAA, triple-A
Anti-aircraft shell fire. [from 1940]
Synonym: ack-ack
(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]
(informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
Anagrams
• KLFA, falk
Source: Wiktionary
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