knock into a cocked hat
动词 v.
英 /ˈnɒk ˌɪntuː ə ˌkɒkt ˈhæt/
美 /ˈnɑk ˌɪntu ə ˌkɑkt ˈhæt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To beat up or seriously injure (a person); to badly damage (a thing).
— Tho' I'll tell ye what, stranger, I'm none your mealy mouthed fellows, and I'm little jubus [dubious] that you're one of them there [John Quincy] Adams men. And I've just seen the time that I'd knock sich a fellow into a cocked hat as quick as name it. But [Andrew] Jackson is safe enough and he's jist the chickin what's able; Adams is done for til he's made over.
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To completely demolish, nullify, overthrow, or otherwise defeat (a person; an argument, idea, or proposition; or a thing).
— All the original ideas we had were knocked into a cocked hat by the latest survey.
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A cocked hat is one with the brim turned up to form two or three points (a bicorn or tricorn). The verb may refer:
* to someone or something being knocked or hit out of shape like such a hat, or a person having a cocked hat forced on to their head; or
* to a person knocking down all but three pins in a game of ninepins, or to the similar game called “cocked hat” in which only three pins are set up in a triangle, although these may simply be allusions to the shape of a tricorn. It has been pointed out that evidence linking these games to the verb is lacking.
* to someone or something being knocked or hit out of shape like such a hat, or a person having a cocked hat forced on to their head; or
* to a person knocking down all but three pins in a game of ninepins, or to the similar game called “cocked hat” in which only three pins are set up in a triangle, although these may simply be allusions to the shape of a tricorn. It has been pointed out that evidence linking these games to the verb is lacking.
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