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单词 to wear goat's horns
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to wear (the) goat's (also goat) horns
P5. colloquial (North American Sport, originally and chiefly Baseball). to wear (the) goat's (also goat) horns and variants: to be considered responsible for one's team's loss of a game, championship, etc.; to be a ‘goat’ (see sense A. 8).
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1943 Cosmopolitan Feb. 14/1 A crucial decision in the third inning of the third game shaped up the billy-goat horns for Mac, himself.]
1944 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. (Sports section) s2/2 He [sc. Babe Ruth] wore the goat's horns in 1942 and was the superstar of 1943.
1963 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 28 Oct. b3/4 Two Redskin heroes..wore goats' horns Sunday as Washington went down to its fourth straight defeat.
1991 B. M. Nash & A. Zullo Basketball Hall of Shame 193 With a one-point edge, Bradley tried to dribble out the clock—and almost went home wearing the goat horns.
2011 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sports section) c5 McNamara and his pitching staff..deserve a good chunk of the blame. But..only one man can wear the goat horns, and, for that, the baseball gods chose Billy Bucks.
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