on the ropes

on the ropes (在拳击时被击)倒在栏索上;〈俚语〉处于困境;即将完蛋：This famous boxer meets a rival more powerful than he，he has been on the ropes now.这个有名的拳击手遇到了一个比他更强大的对手，他现在已经被击倒在栏索上。

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• go by the name of…
• twerps
• conditioners
• frontal lobotomy
• line-firing
• entrance pupils
• rocket immunoelectrophoresis
• divi-divi
• Grecian
• anthropotomists
• from beginning to the end
• realizings
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• kenophobia
• pralidoxime
• vogue
• tarmaced
• Zuleika
• Shemitic
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• primordialities
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• demonstrator
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• decasyllabic
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• cut one's painter
• Katowice
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• recoilless gun
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• touch down
• soulfully
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• to the death
• by reason that
• blinies
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• Gongorism
• split away
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