请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 out for the count
释义

> as lemmas

out for the count
c. Boxing. The counting aloud by the referee of ten seconds, the limit of time allowed to a fallen boxer to rise and resume the contest, or accept defeat; also, a specified period of less than ten seconds before a boxer rises to resume the contest. Esp. in to take the (full) count, to be knocked down for such a period; to be defeated; out for the count, unable to rise from the canvas for at least ten seconds; defeated. Also transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > counting of time by referee
count1902
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > be knocked out or punished
to nap it1699
to take the (full) count1902
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [adverb] > defeated
out1894
out for the count1930
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders 86 It rattled me so I had to take the full count.
1913 Chums 15 Mar. 498/2 The count was being shouted... Roy leaped to the centre of the ring before the count was finished.
1913 Chums 24 May 667/2 ‘I nearly took the count that time, old fellow,’ he said.
1917 J. Farnol Definite Object xxi I—I was knocked out t'night—I took th' count!
1922 R. Parrish Case & Girl 322 West went down for the count, lying motionless on the floor.
1923 A. Soutar Battling Barker ii. 28 He feinted with the left, and bringing the right over sharply, dropped Jud for the full count.
1927 E. Corri Gloves & Man 214 Neither of them was knocked down until the eleventh round, when Sharkey took the count.
1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 16/5 The Walthamstow boxer was floored for a long count, and his seconds wisely threw in his towel.
1930 F. Yeats-Brown Bengal Lancer xii. 173 Now that Nur-ud-din is within punching distance, he'll put him out for the count.
1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 142 Was my Demon going to lay the hot coal of inspiration on Lettcombe's unshorn lips—not on mine? But I would allow him the count fairly, and I began, ‘One—Two—Three.’
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights vii. 242 There are some speeches before which dignity melts like ice in August, resentment takes the full count.
1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 204 With the Jerries rocking on their heels the way they were the odds were they'd have taken the count before he got back.
1953 A. Baron Human Kind xxiv. 179 We won't be safe till we've put them out for the count.
1965 M. Golesworthy Encycl. Boxing (ed. 3) 62/1 After World War II..the audible count was adopted.
extracted from countn.1
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/9 18:49:18