lay a glove on

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hit with a boxing glove.
    — “You were so good he couldn't lay a glove on you. You were terrific. He tired to hit you with his knockout punch but you skillfully avoided it - do you remember how his glove whistled harmlessly past your head?
  2. To physically touch, especially in a way that causes hurt.
    — The blinking headlights in his rearview mirror indicated the driver's anger at almost being sideswiped. “Oh, get a grip on yourself,” Dave groused as he continued accelerating. “I didn't even lay a glove on ya,” he giggled.
  3. To harm (someone's) reputation, to make an accusation stick. broadly
    — It was more than an anticlimax: it was a triumph for the President. “They didn't lay a glove on him,” Robert Bennett, his lawyer, told me. “On a scale of one to ten, it was a fifteen.”
  4. To match, to provide with meaningful competition or be able to handle.
    — And I was dubious because I thought the problem was so huge that no small amount of money that we would put in this bill would lay a glove on the problem.

词形变化

lays a glove on present,singular,third-person laying a glove on participle,present laid a glove on participle,past laid a glove on past

词源

From the sport of boxing, referring to managing to hit someone with one's boxing glove.
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