单词 | can't hit the broad side of a barn |
释义 | can't hit the broad side of a barnHave very poor aim. For example, That rookie can't hit the broad side of a barn, let alone strike anyone out or, as put in The New Republic (February 19, 1990): “Their missiles couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.” This hyperbolic term, dating from the mid-1800s, at first denoted poor marksmanship. Around 1900 it also began to be used in baseball, for a pitcher with poor aim. Words nearby can't hit the broad side of a barncantharides, cantharus, canthectomy, can't help, canthitis, can't hit the broad side of a barn, Can-Tho, can't hold a candle to, cantholysis, canthomeatal plane, cant hook 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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