| 单词 | three strikes and you're out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthree (also one, two) strikes and you're out Originally and chiefly U.S. three (also one, two) strikes and you're out and variants: a statement of the baseball rule applied more generally to any law or regulation which allows for the specified number of infractions before a severe penalty is imposed (spec. in U.S. Law). Frequently attributive: designating or relating to such a measure. ΚΠ 1912 N.Y. Times 30 June 16/6 This was the third of the Commoner's [sc. William Jennings Bryan's] appearances at this convention, and if the game were being played according to the rules it would be ‘three strikes and out’. 1949 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 27/2 As to Indian Service personnel, it was recommended that the rule on misfits be ‘three strikes and out’, which was explained as no more than two major assignments ‘muffed’. 1990 Dallas Morning News 23 Nov. 28 a/1 Manley was given a lifetime suspension from the National Football League for violating the league's ‘three strikes, you're out’ drug policy. 1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Nov. a14/1 We are likely now to see the spread of measures such as ‘Three Strikes and You're Out’, which passed Tuesday by a whopping margin of 76% to 24%... The measure provides that persons convicted of three major felonies go to prison forever, no parole. 1995 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. A police force is reviving a 93-year-old law in an attempt to drive persistent drunks off the streets with a ‘three strikes and you're out’ policy..to make it an offence to sell alcohol to anyone convicted of drink-related offences three times in a year. 2000 Independent 9 Mar. i. 1/1 The Chancellor will implement the ‘two strikes and out’ policy used by some states in the US, where fraudsters are stopped from receiving benefits for a set time. < as lemmas |
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