单词 | to put off stroke |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (someone) off (his) stroke f. to put (someone) off (his) stroke, to distract (someone) from his course of activity; to disconcert or disturb. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > disconcert blemish1544 blank1548 to put out1598 unsettle1644 disconcert1695 to put off1909 to put (someone) off (his) strokea1914 to bend (a person) out of shape1955 to throw off1978 a1914 J. Joyce Stephen Hero (1944) xx. 103 Besides girls praying put me off my stroke. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 278 Put you off your stroke. 1965 J. Gale Clean Young Englishman iv. 167 The note put me right off my stroke. I was trying to tell the audience what the war in Algeria was really like... But somehow I never finished what I wanted to say. 1977 R. Perry Dead End iii. 41 She must have..seen the bodies..but it didn't put her off her stroke at all. < as lemmas |
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