two / three strikes against sb / sth

two / three strikes against sb / sth AmEa condition or situation that makes it extremely difficult for someone or something to be successful某人/某事处于十分不利的地位; 某人/某事很难获得成功:•Children from poor backgrounds have two strikes against them by the time they begin school.贫困家庭的孩子等到入学的时候就处于劣势了。

• documentary
• tourney
• wave angles
• policymaker
• pick-off
• prorogation
• corresponding
• dolbies
• torsion head
• sambaing
• direct evidence
• in spite of sb’s teeth
• ropy lava
• plumpier
• redwing
• spread-over
• undergraduateship
• self-humiliations
• small beer chronicle
• sokols
• (get/take your) hands off (sth/sb)
• wild cherries
• spheral
• Eskisehir
• cytoplasmic streaming
• Flory temperature
• terminal station
• Muhammadan calendar
• bonus circulation
• sb can be forgiven for thinking / believing / feeling etc sth
• beatific
• septentrional
• seasonally frozen ground
• nuclear quadrupole resonance
• topological mapping
• assentors
• giant nuclear resonances
• alternate angles
• crown ether
• evolutionists
• protomylonite
• address space
• overfire draft
• truncately
• caprification
• someone's （或the） best plan
• derivativeness
• polishments
• starred
• thoracostomies
• bor-ing
• bistroic
• soul cake
• de Witte relation
• paradropper
• xylulose
• decelerating electrode
• actual exhaust velocity
• awake with a start
• wildest
• Inner Hebrides
• physicists
• lipbalm
• I can't say (that)
• guest-hosted
• convoluted tubule
• misperception
• Geiger-Müller counter
• Lower House
• glide slope
• a rolling stone gathers no moss
• Egyptianising
• organic-cooled
• radar tracking
• exemia
• woofer
• megatons
• average taring
• exclusivisms
• beennah
• hurter
• doggedly
• tidy sth↔away
• inhalants
• in the box seat
• possibility by area
• rotenone
• achromat
• advertise for
• Victor Charlie
• lighthouse keepers
• ditching machine
• detecters
• mutualization
• beta distribution
• surpliced
• tight rate
• do or die
• aspartyls
• murdochs