“Gung ho” is from a Chinese dialect, not Japanese, despite that one movie where the Americans have to work in a Japanese company’s car factory. It came into the American slang vocabulary during World War Two, when the mainland Chinese became our allies.
“Gung ho” is from a Chinese dialect, not Japanese, despite that one movie where the Americans have to work in a Japanese company’s car factory. It came into the American slang vocabulary during World War Two, when the mainland Chinese became our allies.