Brooms and Sweepers

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Sweepers and brooms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sweepers" instead a noun "Brooms".

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Brooms and sweepers are semantically related. You can use "Brooms" instead a noun "Sweepers".

There is a old running joke that the announcement following a kamikaze attack on a British Carrier was "Sweepers, man your brooms."

Source: The Worf Barrage
A popular legend of the time was that one of the first announcements a British carrier captain made to his crew following a kamikaze attack was "Sweepers, man your brooms."

Source: No Sell
When they realized that the Brits fitted armored decks to their aircraft carriers (which made the usual reaction to a Kamikaze attack: "sweepers, man your brooms"), the Japanese built the MXY7 Ohka, essentially a manned cruise missile, to stop them.

Source: Lensman Arms Race

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