| 单词 | to take the knock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the knock b. A misfortune, a rebuff, a blow; adverse criticism. Frequently in to take the knock: to sustain a severe financial or emotional blow, to suffer a setback. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden shake1565 cut1568 dash1580 knock1649 shock1654 blow1678 stroke1686 black eye1712 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer a setback to take the knock1890 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff rebuke?a1513 counterbuff1579 damp1584 check?c1600 turnagain1630 rebuff1672 knock1898 knockback1898 1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 92 Our bodies are but fraile, earthen vessels, subject to every knock of sicknesse. 1890 Globe 21 Apr. 6/1 A broken backer of horses who has taken, what is known in the language of the turf, as the knock. 1898 A. Conan Doyle Trag. Korosko ii. 37 We get hard knocks and no thanks, and why should we do it? 1900 E. Wells Chestnuts xxiii. 226 When a prominent backer takes the knock racing, he sometimes has the greatest difficulty to avoid his creditors. 1905 ‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me iii. 50 There are only four people in New York city who can write criticisms—the rest of the bunch are slush-dealers, and a knock from any one of them is a boost. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. iv. 322 Here's a poor devil whose mistress has just been telling him a pretty little story of her husband... He's taken the knock, you see. 1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Nov. 73/1 It will be a knock to his reputation. 1930 V. Palmer in Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Apr. 38/3 [McCurdie] lay there... ‘He's taken the knock,’ said a cattle-buyer... In a moment a change came into the atmosphere around the sleeping man. 1930 D. Runyon in Collier's 13 Sept. 7/1 They are always doing something which is considered a knock to the community, such as robbing people. 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza vi. 54 ‘One's had a pretty bad knock,’ he added self-consciously, in that queer jargon which he imagined to be colloquial English... That ‘bad knock’ was a metaphor drawn from the boxing contests he had never witnessed. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda xiv. 111 He saw himself..ready to stand up and take the knock if they got into trouble with the john. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 2/5 In a dress suit much too large for him, he is on top of the world by submitting with such cheerful readiness to its knocks. 1959 Encounter Aug. 7/1 Like other institutions of the Establishment, it has taken a knock or two in recent years. 1962 B.S.I. News June 9/1 Advertising has had some hard knocks from its critics recently. 1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair ii. 24 The pilot..in the event of an accident will..[be] summoned to appear before the Pilotage Committee to explain his actions and take the knock if held to blame. < as lemmas |
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