| 单词 | to stick one's landing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick one's (also the) landing P12. Originally and chiefly U.S. to stick one's (also the) landing: (in Gymnastics) to execute a flawless landing after a vault, flip, dismount, etc.; (hence, in extended use) to make any precise or skilful landing. Also figurative: to complete or accomplish something successfully, esp. something considered to be difficult. ΚΠ 1973 Gymnast Jan. 11/2 Olga Korbut was first up and hit her Yamashita and stuck her landing with the first vault a little better than the second. 1996 USA Today (Nexis) 14 Aug. a2 To borrow another sports metaphor, you can say this for the Republicans this year: They stuck the landing. Like it or not. 1999 A. Collins Evel Knievel ix. 112 Proving..that Knievel was a motorcycle acrobat like no other, he managed to stick the landing..perfectly. 2008 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Pasatiempo Suppl.) 25 It [sc. the book] builds to a climax that relies a bit too much on coincidence for my taste, but despite some wobbling, Barlow sticks the landing. 2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sports section) d5 Leyva was a study in body control on parallel bars and stuck his landing to finish second. < as lemmas |
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