单词 | to be able to look at |
释义 | > as lemmasto be able to look at (g) Cricket colloquial. to be able to look at: (of a batter) to be able to cope with, to do well against (a bowler, etc.). Chiefly in negative contexts. Now rare. ΚΠ 1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Apr. 150 The former [sc. certain bowlers] gradually ‘lifted it’ higher and higher, until on some grounds in hot, dry weather ‘a batsman could hardly look at them’. 1895 Daily News 26 Aug. 7/1 When he [sc. a bowler] went on for the second time the batsmen..‘could not look at him’. 1904 R. S. Holmes Hist. Yorks. County Cricket xi. 143 Only one batsman—Gregory—could look at the bowling. < as lemmas |
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