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单词 like as they lie
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like as they (also we) lie
P7. Golf. like as they (also we) lie: having played the same number of strokes for a hole or round. Cf. sense A. 7.
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1858 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Sept. 158/2 They arrive within a few yards of the last hole ‘the like as they lie’.]
1881 R. Forgan Golfer's Handbk. 34 Like-as-we-lie, when both parties have played the same number of strokes.
1891 Golf 18 Sept. 13/1 Both sides were like as they lay in three.
1910 P. G. Wodehouse in Collier's 19 Mar. 28/3 But when he won two more holes, bringing the score to like-as-we-lie, it [sc. hope] flamed up within him like a beacon.
1955 R. Browning Hist. Golf xxviii. 178 At every point at which the opponents had played an equal number of strokes for any hole, they would describe the position as being like as we lie.
extracted from likeadj.adv.conj.prep.
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