in the… stakes

in the… stakesused to say how much of a particular quality a person has, as if they were in a competition in which some people are more successful than others（评论一个人的某种品质高或低）要是比…的话，论…John doesn't do too well in the personality stakes.论人格魅力，约翰很一般。

• retropulsion
• big take
• bessemerize
• cop an attitude
• pragmatised
• entanglement
• spray paint
• emptily
• Saint Olaf
• be on one’s last legs
• acinus
• nourished
• hemorrhagic septicemia
• re-sign
• stocking cutter
• novaliss
• decillionths
• voltage divider
• bring sth↔out
• spermatopathy
• dunk shots
• yacht clubs
• stream gradient
• acronymic
• partnerships
• ultrareds
• Carson
• oceloid
• touch a nerve
• Mexican jumping beans
• breadnuts
• dephosphorylates
• microminiaturizations
• insulate
• olecranon
• coastal current
• white wax
• jeopardize,jeopardizing;-ised
• freeest
• gas generator
• cut at
• donor card
• saunciest
• ankyloses
• agile
• roentgen meter
• Fernandinos
• bawl out
• FG achromaticism
• idiopathic megacolon
• show apathy to/towards
• step-servo motor
• live out one's days
• atmoclast
• letters of credence
• work out one's own salvation
• spivveries
• reverse arms
• environment-hostile
• color circle
• sportif
• fast friends
• sturty
• brown swisses
• trucklingly
• ferric acetate
• unlibbed
• dobber
• hypocycloid
• fire drills
• dacarbazine
• a change of scene
• textolite
• underlies
• dryomorph
• chape
• pilot briefing
• carrying charge
• boychick
• A.La.
• profanations
• driftless
• semicylindric
• flash process
• brass winds
• oxcart
• be / feel conflicted (about sth)
• advance growth
• Asianness
• below standard
• hundred-proof
• precipitation cell
• lurement
• freelancest
• sartorially
• Uhlenbeck,George
• qualia
• mother aircraft
• find learn the hard way
• know different/otherwise