"sir sandwich" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: ma'am sandwich"
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          "ref": "1977, Approach",
          "text": "\"Yes, sir, I am wearing glasses, sir!\" “Don't give me a sir sandwich! Since you are wearing glasses, you are an NFOC, not an AOC.",
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          "ref": "2002, Nancy Mace, Mary Jane Ross, In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel, Simon and Schuster, page 176",
          "text": "I replied that he was, with a \"sir sandwich\" (wedging my response between \"sir's\").",
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          "ref": "2009, Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education, Penguin",
          "text": "“Sir, yes, sir.” “Are you at the Naval Academy?\" “Sir, no, sir.” “Then stop making sir sandwiches, candidate. lt's 'yes, sir' or 'no, sir.'\"",
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          "ref": "2013, Martin L. Lockett, PALPABLE IRONY: LOSING MY FREEDOM TO FIND MY PURPOSE, Author House, page 123",
          "text": "Speaking of that, you will always address us with a 'sir sandwich.' A sir sandwich or a ma'am sandwich ... is you putting a sir or ma'am at the beginning of your sentence and at the end of your sentence.",
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          "ref": "2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, HMH, page 152",
          "text": "You will only say 'sir' at the beginning of the sentence. This is not the Marine Corps, this is the Army, we do not make sir sandwiches.",
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        "The practice of beginning and ending a sentence with the address of sir."
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        "(military, slang) The practice of beginning and ending a sentence with the address of sir."
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          "text": "Coordinate term: ma'am sandwich"
        },
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          "text": "\"Yes, sir, I am wearing glasses, sir!\" “Don't give me a sir sandwich! Since you are wearing glasses, you are an NFOC, not an AOC.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Nancy Mace, Mary Jane Ross, In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel, Simon and Schuster, page 176",
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