| 词汇 | sound-the-death-knell-for |
| 释义 | sound the death knell for something collocation (alsotoll the death knell for something) to cause something to fail or come to an end, or to be a sign or warning that something is failing or coming to an end: The opening of the superstore will sound the death knell for hundreds of small independent shops. The Suez Crisis tolled the death knell for British and French imperialism. See soundverb tollverb death knell Farmers said that the latest outbreak of the disease could sound the death knell for the pork industry. A poor report from the inspectors can sound the death knell for a school. The arrival of grunge sounded the death knell for hard rock. Failing and doing badly abjectly at-risk backbencher balls (something) up be on your beam endsidiom blow (someone/something) up bomb egg flog flog a dead horseidiom flop flub flunk out founder mess running on emptyidiom sclerotic screw screw (something) up the rot sets inidiom |
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