losing line
短语词形变化
losing lines
复数
losing lines
释义与例句
n.
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1.
Synonym of losing streak (“uninterrupted series of losses”).
1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados "I wish you two men would give me the tip for beating this purgatorial image," he grumbled as they came up. "I thought that he'd struck a losing line after your experience and this is the result." He indicated the spectacle of their amiable host folding up his I.O.U. preparatory to dropping it carelessly into a letter-rack, and shrugged his shoulders with keen disgust.