单词 | to park the bus |
释义 | > as lemmasto park the bus j. transitive. Association Football. colloquial. to park the bus and variants: to play in a very defensive way, typically by having the majority of outfield players close to their own goal and showing little attacking intent.Usually with negative connotations.With humorous reference to the bus or coach in which teams typically travel to away games. [Originally after Portuguese estacionar o autocarro (Mourinho; see quots. 20041 and 20042) < estacionar to park (1811; < estação station n.) + o the + autocarro bus (c1930; < auto- auto- comb. form2 + carro car n.1).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [phrase] > take very defensive approach to park the bus2004 2004 Agence France Presse Newswire (Nexis) 19 Sept. ‘There is only one team that played to win and the other just not to concede goals,’ said Mourinho. ‘They had a header and then defended, they didn't play football they brought the bus and left the bus in front of the goal as we say in my country.’] 2004 Daily Mail 24 Sept. 94/3 Tottenham supporters won't tolerate indefinite repeats of the massed rearguard action that took a point from Stamford Bridge last weekend, when Mourinho claimed Spurs had ‘parked their bus in the goalmouth’. 2009 P. Auclair Cantona ix. 199 When Leeds played at home, the visiting teams tried to park the bus in front of the goal, and play ultra-defensively. 2016 C. Lloyd & W. Coffey When Nobody was Watching xv. 181 To me, we are playing too cautiously, still parking the bus. < as lemmas |
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