释义 |
ninepinsnine‧pins /ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz/ noun [uncountable] - Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
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1a game in which you roll a ball at nine bottle-shaped objects to try to hit them so that they fall2drop/go down like ninepins if people or things drop like ninepins, many of them fall down or become ill or injured suddenly all at the same time: It’s just three weeks into the season and players are dropping like ninepins. |