| 单词 | shooting match |
| 释义 | shooting match in British English (ˈʃuːtɪŋ mætʃ) noun 1. a shooting competition a clay pigeon shooting match 2. a gun fight They were unable to face the Portuguese ships in a shooting match. 3. the whole shooting match shooting match in American English (for 1 ˈʃuːtɪŋ, for 2 ˈʃuːtn, ˈʃuːtɪŋ) noun 1. a contest in marksmanship 2. informal a. a number of persons or things collectively b. everything involved with a particular matter He decided to sell the whole shooting match—his house, furniture, and car Word origin [1740–50]This word is first recorded in the period 1740–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: etiquette, first class, materialism, picnic, snappy |
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