| 单词 | to call one's shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call one's shot d. U.S. Billiards. to call one's shot, to announce which ball one intends to shoot into which pocket; also figurative. (Cf. 7i.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or types of play carambole1775 string1814 cannon1825 to make a baulk1839 star1839 push1851 to play for safety1857 run1857 carom1860 to knock the balls about1864 miscue1889 snooker1889 break1893 break1893 scratch1909 to call one's shot1953 1953 Official Rule Bk. Pocket & Carom Billiard Games 27 Player does not have to ‘call his shot’ on opening stroke. 1954 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (ed. 2) §179/4 Call one's shot,..to guess or predict rightly. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself 22 It will be fine if I can write so well and so strongly as to call my shot. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile vi. 93 In making this statement he called his shots correctly. 1976 Billings (Montana) Sunday Gaz. 20 June 1- a/3 There was no question in my mind that Nixon was calling his own shots. < as lemmas |
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