come off second best

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be defeated in competition; be on the losing side.
    — He was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in 1827 at the newly-founded London University, and became prominent in railway controversies in the 'thirties, when he came off second best in a dispute with Daniel Gooch about the effects of speed on the human frame.

词形变化

comes off second best present,singular,third-person coming off second best participle,present came off second best past come off second best participle,past
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