knock someone back

knock someone back Brit. informal 〈英, 非正式〉 1. reject or discourage a person or their request or suggestion 拒绝某人, 挫伤某人。 2. cost someone a specified, typically large, amount of money 花掉某人一大笔钱： buying that house must have knocked them back a bit. 买下那幢房子一定花费了他们一大笔钱。

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• Griffith
• future perfect
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• spore cases
• successivity
• fiberless
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• ancoming
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• chlamydeous
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• imperturbable
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• elective franchise
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• stercorarian
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• neoplasticist
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• leal
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• totaling或-talling
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• intrepidity
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• dress-up
• SI units
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• bandylegged
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• cracked up to be
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• anaphrodisiac
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• suppos
• steal up on
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• disputativeness
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• rowdying
• bench dogs
• misbranded drugs
• win clear (或 free)
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• drilling rigs
• Papilionidae
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• third order of enterprises
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• edited American English
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• Pollyannaism
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