| 单词 | take a shellacking |
| 释义 | take a shellackingBe soundly beaten or defeated, as in Our team took quite a shellacking last night. Why being coated with shellac should suggest defeat is not clear. [Slang; c. 1930] Words nearby take a shellackingtake a picture, take a poke at, take a powder, take a rain check, take as gospel, take a shellacking, take a shine to, take aside, take a spill, take a stand, take at face value The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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