| 单词 | fair stand-up fight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfair (or square) stand-up fight 2. Originally: (Boxing) designating a match in which the combatants stand up fairly to one another without wrestling, flinching, or evasion (frequently in fair (or square) stand-up fight); also in extended use. Later also: (of a fight, argument, etc.) involving direct confrontation. Now chiefly British and Irish English. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [adjective] martialc1425 warlike1585 stand-up1789 1789 D. Mendoza Let. 16 May in World 18 May I will fight you on turf, inclosed in a circle of equal dimensions as at our last contest—a stand up fight—the person falling without a blow, to lose the battle. 1849 C. Stovel Canne's Necessitie of Separation Introd. p. xc The conflict of the Puritans became a direct stand-up fight with legalized..episcopal domination. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i His face marked with strong manly furrows, records of hard thinking and square stand-up fights with life. 1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues iv. 129 I had a stand-up row with this PC who had put the message on the radio. 2007 Afr. News (Nexis) 5 Aug. He can whip anyone who dares challenge him in a fair, stand-up fight, and is prepared to move up his weight division to prove he is still the country's greatest boxer alive. < as lemmas |
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