词汇 | ninepins |
释义 | ninepins noun[ plural ] UKuk /ˈnaɪn.pɪnz/ us /ˈnaɪn.pɪnz/ go down/fall like ninepins to fall, break, or be damaged in large numbers: 大批倒下;大量受损 Trees were going down like ninepins in the strong wind.树木在狂风中横七竖八倒了一地。 Destroying and demolishing annihilate annihilation apocalypse bash bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom costly dynamite erosion erosional erosionally erosive saboteur sack sacking sacrifice scarred self-destruct sink wipe Examples of ninepinsninepins It is terribly easy to set up ninepins and knock them down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am in favour of meeting legitimate fears but not of knocking down ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One would get the impression that we were in the habit of knocking down judges as if they were ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A large part of that speech was devoted to putting up ninepins and knocking them down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the last war prices rose enormously, and when the slump came firms went down like ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is putting up ninepins in order to knock them down again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That group is like a row of ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He seems to have been setting up a lot of ninepins and knocking them down to his own satisfaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not set up ninepins that do not exist, and knock them down with magnificent rhetoric. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But in 30 years from now, with the present strict hygiene rules, those households would probably go down like ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will not make a debating reply, responding to each point as though they had to be knocked down like ninepins in the customary fashion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As soon as the doors of one company were closed, the rest went down like ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he wants ninepins to knock down, let us have them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thank goodness, it is not true to say that they are going down like ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is great fun knocking down one's own ninepins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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