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单词 a body blow
释义

a body blow

something which causes you great disappointment or difficulty
The result will deliver a body blow to Conservative party confidence.

Examples of 'a body blow' in a sentence
a body blow

It was a 'body blow to the thousands of non-religious head teachers and teachers'.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Commentators described the move as a 'body blow' to savers.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A body blow for player, club and country.
The Sun (2008)
It's outrageous, appalling, a body blow to democracy.
canada.com (2004)
Defence corporate morale, which has been fragile for some time, would take a body blow.
The Sun (2018)
His loss, even for six months, will be a body blow for a firm already feeling the pinch of recession.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The discoveries of scholarship and science that dealt such a body blow to the religion from the 19th century onwards cannot be reversed.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
But that in turn will partly depend on the general economic climate of 'confidence', which has taken a 'body blow' from the downgrade.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Their approach could be a body blow to partial, idiosyncratic and subjective literary criticism and to innumerate or illogical scholars.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
If that recovery stalls amid shopfloor acrimony, it will be a body blow for the wider economy as it limps out of recession.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
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