单词 | to get one's ass handed to one |
释义 | > as lemmasto get one's ass (also head) handed to one P2. Originally and chiefly U.S. to get one's ass (also head) handed to one: to be thoroughly humiliated, exposed, beaten, defeated, etc. ΚΠ 1940 L. Zinberg Walk hard—talk Loud 332 He can send me in against the good boys,..figuring I'll get my head handed to me. But I can beat them... I can lick anybody. 1961 R. Granat Important Thing 157 We were all expectin' to get our ass handed to us on a sling any minute now. 1966 J. Neugeboren Big Man v. 96 Maybe I should of been a boxer... But man, you get your ass handed to you, wind up with half a brain. 1994 J. Lovell & J. Kluger Apollo 13 (1995) Prologue 4 The surest way to get your head handed to you in the space-travel business was to take it for granted that a smooth flight was going to stay smooth. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money i. 24 If they'd ever actually had to walk into one of those old roadhouses they're forever elegizing, they'd have likely gotten their ass handed to them. < as lemmas |
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