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单词 body blow
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body blow
body blow n. (a) (originally and chiefly Boxing) a heavy punch to the torso; (b) figurative a severe disappointment, a crushing setback.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the body
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden > very or completely
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1789 Mod. Art Boxing ii. 12 In this rule of parrying the blows of your adversary's left hand with your right, and his right with your left, may be included the maxim of not bringing down both arms to defend yourself from a body blow.
1792 Sporting Mag. 1 43/2 After sparring some time..Stanyard put in a body blow.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 589 Samson received a smart body-blow.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 43 That body-blow left Joe's head unguarded.
1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 16 ‘If I had lived here for twenty-seven Years..I think I'd be downright Anxious to Die.’ But the crafty Biologist did not release this Body Blow until he was good and sure that the Train had started to move.
1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 39 Face-punches and body-blows.
1958 Times 22 Apr. 6/7 It is a body blow. I am carrying the can for somebody else.
1996 Big Issue 15 July 4/1 With a rancid edge and a festering punch, like a body blow from an enraged boxer, it sends me recoiling and leaves me rasping, gasping for breath.
2002 Sunday Times of India 22 Sept. 14/1 Television channels have dealt a body blow to Hindi films by airing all those Hollywood films that our filmmakers snitch from.
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