Right Arm of the Free World
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Proper noun
[edit]the Right Arm of the Free World (uncountable)
- (colloquial) The FN-FAL, which was widely used by militaries of the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
- 2017 February 16, Jason J. Brown, “The FN FAL: ‘The Right Arm of the Free World’”, in National Rifle Association[1]:
- Even as the U.S. rapidly moved on from their M-14 to the famed M-16 rifle, the rest of the world’s efforts against the Soviets and their “Red reach” was at the muzzle end of the FAL, resulting in the rifle’s nickname, “the Right Arm of the Free World.”