one in the eye (for sb/sth)

one in the eye (for sb/sth)(informal)a result, action, etc. that represents a defeat or disappointment for sb/sth失败；挫折；失望The appointment of a woman was one in the eye for male domination.任命女性担任这个职位是对男权统治的严重打击。

• string constant
• biddy-biddy
• mixolydians
• presbyopias
• hoverbarges
• magicking
• stillbirths
• panda gold coin
• endodontic
• run into a blank wall
• Social Democracy
• relievings
• relax your concentration / vigilance etc
• syphilitics
• speak out
• despondency
• shock excitation
• exacts
• Trunk.
• camp car
• private enterprise
• inventory
• American mountain ash
• a bad penny always turns up
• hatchback
• AALCC
• rule out the possibility of
• rat on （〈美〉亦作rat someone out）
• Fontinalaceae
• hook up (to sth)
• Pinus
• deal someone a poor deck
• acanthus
• idealize
• entam(o)ebae
• Dendrobatinae
• choriocarcinomata
• reproachfully
• muon
• leave someone in the cold
• geologic log
• petechiate
• Fleet Air Arm
• rode
• thicketing
• Alib Ike
• direct-chill casting
• Gt.Brit.,Gt.Br.
• biliousness
• vairs
• disenfranchising
• coccospheres
• exorcise from
• third gear
• take distance
• short-waisted
• tonic spasm
• jinnier
• designatums
• prohibit
• precisely
• hyperthyroidism
• management of distribution channel
• muttons
• in good faith
• piaffing
• riven
• ouis
• rose-beds
• double-dare
• townspeople
• booky
• in a fit of spleen
• Guadalquivir
• toscanite
• Uruguayans
• heliophyllite
• dumb-asses
• tfr
• tennis falnnels
• calcium chloride
• ruminal
• baryes
• put in adventure
• cosmic man
• boot it
• rudenesses
• horsas
• transatlantically
• forewoman
• silicon-symmetrical switch
• throw a new light
• disc system
• aspired
• the upshot (of sth)
• release
• electric catfish
• phenotypic
• Gnesen
• exists