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单词 kryptonite
释义

kryptonite in British English

(ˈkrɪptəˌnaɪt)
noun
informal
something that renders a person or thing helpless
football movies are box-office kryptonite
Word origin
C20: from the fictional substance to which the hero is vulnerable in the comic stripSuperman

Examples of 'kryptonite' in a sentence
kryptonite

Queues are kryptonite to hospitality; syrup of figs to standing still.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They'll be lucky with relationship kryptonite — the in-laws — there ...
The Sun (2011)
My style was kryptonite to his; he never really landed anything clean on me.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
But turn single in your forties, dude, and you are relationship kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Now he's comedy kryptonite, the comic other comedians dare not get close to.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But the deadliest kryptonite against a superhero is boredom.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In television, a medium where you can't move for unfunny, awkward, comedy-kryptonite quartets, that's gold dust.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Is it that grains are like kryptonite to her - she cannot sense them until it's toolate?
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The nanny state is political kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
That is like the heavyweight's kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
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