| 单词 | pitched battle, a |
| 释义 | pitched battle, aAn intense conflict, as in Their disagreement turned into a pitched battle between the nurses and the physicians' assistants. This term, dating from about 1600, originally alluded to a military battle in which the array of forces and battleground are predetermined (as opposed to a hasty skirmish). Words nearby pitched battle, aApiezon, API gravity scale, apiology, Apis, apish, pitched battle, a, apivorous, APL, A place for everything and everything in its place, aplacental, aplacophoran 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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