英语词汇“back on one's heels”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) figurative (originally U.S. Sport). To throw (a person) off guard; to surprise, shock, or disconcert (a person). Also: to put at a disadvantage; to put on the defensive. Hence back on one's heels: on the defensive, at a disadvantage.

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1914 Sat. Evening Post 4 July 8/2 ‘We had more .300 batters last season than there was in the National.’ ‘But look what they was hitting against!’ I thought that one would set him back on his heels, but it didn't. He went right along.

1927 N.Y. Times 8 Feb. 19/3 ‘Light Horse Harry’ Cooper handed ‘The Haig’ a 10 and 9 defeat at match play, which set the golf fans back on their heels, so to speak.

1937 Boys' Life Oct. 11/2 Princeton..bowled the Lions back on their heels under an avalanche of twenty points.

1944 Life 24 Jan. 28/1 One of the hardest blows yet struck against the German Air Force. The Germans are back on their heels.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Nov. This was the affair that rocked Britain back on its heels and even threatened the monarchy itself.

1998 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 28 Jan. e4 You have to be the aggressor or you're back on your heels reacting to everything they are doing.

2014 New Yorker 22 Dec. 105/1 Produce the transition of power in Iraq, produce the coalition, produce the train-and-equip, then put all these pieces together to push ISIS back on its heels.

单词	back on one's heels
释义	> as lemmas back on one's heels (b) figurative (originally U.S. Sport). To throw (a person) off guard; to surprise, shock, or disconcert (a person). Also: to put at a disadvantage; to put on the defensive. Hence back on one's heels: on the defensive, at a disadvantage. ΚΠ 1914 Sat. Evening Post 4 July 8/2 ‘We had more .300 batters last season than there was in the National.’ ‘But look what they was hitting against!’ I thought that one would set him back on his heels, but it didn't. He went right along. 1927 N.Y. Times 8 Feb. 19/3 ‘Light Horse Harry’ Cooper handed ‘The Haig’ a 10 and 9 defeat at match play, which set the golf fans back on their heels, so to speak. 1937 Boys' Life Oct. 11/2 Princeton..bowled the Lions back on their heels under an avalanche of twenty points. 1944 Life 24 Jan. 28/1 One of the hardest blows yet struck against the German Air Force. The Germans are back on their heels. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Nov. This was the affair that rocked Britain back on its heels and even threatened the monarchy itself. 1998 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 28 Jan. e4 You have to be the aggressor or you're back on your heels reacting to everything they are doing. 2014 New Yorker 22 Dec. 105/1 Produce the transition of power in Iraq, produce the coalition, produce the train-and-equip, then put all these pieces together to push ISIS back on its heels. extracted from heeln.¹int. < as lemmas
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