| 单词 | blanket finish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblanket finish blanket finish n. (in horse racing, athletics, etc.) an extremely close finish in a race (such that a blanket might cover the contestants involved). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > finish come-in1856 blanket finish1934 photo finish1935 photo1946 1793 Sporting Mag. 2 52/1 Of the nineteen [race-horses] that started, the judge could only place the first four, for not only those, but four or five others, might have been nearly covered with a blanket.] 1888 Brewster (N.Y.) Standard 14 Sept. 4/4 Victor Duroc, Harry D., and White Eye made a blanket finish of it. The first two were even, and White Eye was only neck and shoulders away. 1960 Times 1 Sept. 4/3 Black was beaten by a hairsbreadth in a blanket finish for the silver and bronze medals. 2006 P. McMullen Amazing Pace 196 Eleven hundredths of a second separated the medalists in one of the greatest blanket finishes Olympic swimming had ever produced. < as lemmas |
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