The Germans were loopholing it for defence.

A favorite epithet of the Greek poets, lyrical, epic, and dramatic, is deep-bosomed. […] Full-bosomed might imply a luxuriance every way. Deep-bosomed is spoken in one of those poetical feelings of contrast, which imply rather a dislike of the reverse quality

[H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.

The office manager welcomed him aboard.