单词 | to come nowhere |
释义 | > as lemmasto come nowhere a. To be badly beaten (in a race, contest, etc.); to be completely unsuccessful or out of the running. Frequently in extended use. Also to come nowhere. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > be defeated or lose > be badly beaten to be nowhere1755 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 153/1 His powerful deep rate, by which all the horses that ran against him were no-where. 1826 Sporting Mag. 17 306 Many men were nowhere at the end. 1831 T. B. Macaulay Boswell's Life Johnson in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 16 Boswell is the first of biographers..and the rest nowhere. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. i. 18 The annoyance of a miscalculation on the flat..when a Maldon or Danebury favourite came ‘nowhere’. 1895 Athenæum 14 Sept. 347/3 To the philologist and the student of English literature, it is Oxford first, the rest nowhere. 1967 Listener 19 Jan. 83/3 The Dutch economy would be nowhere without the German hinterland. 1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (2000) vii. 73 There is no funding any longer. On the nation's priorities, animals come nowhere. < as lemmas |
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