Burma Road

English Etymology From the name of a road in Burma which ran to the frontier with China, built in 1937–1938 by the British in order to circumvent the Japanese blockade of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) during World War II.See, for example, F. S. Bond The Railway Section of the Burma Trade Route The Railway Magazine London Tothill Press March 1941 120 0033-8923 1256058197 The international trade route known as the Burma Road has assumed a world-wide political significance and has been much in the limelight during the past few months. Noun Burma Road en figuratively An important military supply route. en 9 March 1942 New Allied Life Line Across Africa Geographic School Bulletin 21 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_national-geographic-school-bulletin_1942-03-09_21_3/page/n7/mode/1up A “Burma Road” for Africa, or, in fact, a pair of “Burma Roads,” may develop from the current improvement of British and Free French roads across Central Africa. en 1947 Raj Narain Gupta Iran: An Economic Study https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uDMzAAAAIAAJ 145 Between January 1, 1943, and June 1, 1945, an average of slightly more than 17 trains plied daily between the two termini of the railway. During all this period, it served as the super-Burma Road to Russia. en 2007 Michael Rydelnik Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What the Headlines Haven’t Told You 9780802426239 2nd 102 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zMEf0XCaKeAC&pg=PA102 The Israelis were able to break the stranglehold by bypassing the normal route to Jerusalem through building a “Burma Road” to resupply the city. References Further reading en 1942 December Dwight L. Bolinger Among the New Words American Speech 1991 John Algeo Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941–1991 052141377X Cambridge University Press 93 Burma Road. The road from Burma to China, used as a military supply-route. +fig. A supply-route of similar nature or importance. en Myanmar Military Named roads Second Sino-Japanese War