Baseball is likely where the idiom “knock it out of the park” comes from. I will briefly talk about basic parts of this sport in an attempt to explain how the term originated there: In baseball, a ball is pitched to a batter whose goal is, simply put, to hit the ball as hard as...
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Need a knockout lesson? This is it. If youve wondered why girls get knocked up, men get knocked out, or Prada bags get knocked off, this phrasal verb lesson will help you out.
have it knocked, Slang. to be assured of success: With a government job, he thought he had it knocked. knock out of the box, Baseball. to cause a pitcher to be removed from the box because the pitcher has permitted too many hits to be made. Also knock out. knock the / one's ...
don'tknockit—there are worse jobs knock 2 of 2noun 1 :a sharp blow 2 :a severe misfortune or hardship 3 a :a pounding noise heard aknockon the door b :a sharp rattling noise caused by abnormal ignition in an automobile engine ...
2. Remove someone from a competitive situation (Franceknocked out Italy in the football semi-final) 3. Either literally or metaphorically hit something outside a boundary (heknocked it out of the park) Knock off can mean: 1. Hit something so that it falls from the thing it was originally...
And this brings us to yet another meaning of the word "knock." 这就给我们带来了knock的另一个含义。 It also means to criticize. If you knock something you find fault with it. So, if someone criticizes your career choice, you can say, "Why are you knocking my job? It's my business...
And this brings us to yet another meaning of the word "knock." It also means to criticize. If you knock something you find fault with it. So, if someone criticizes your career choice, you can say, "Why are you knocking my job? It's my business what I do. Not yours." ...
In addition, it has been reported that cultured SHH-MB cells do not faithfully recapitulate the activation of the SHH pathway in primary tumors [54], calling into question the reliability of these model systems. We here performed CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screens in model systems of SHH-MB in ...
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