spike someone's guns

短语

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To frustrate a person's efforts or designs; to undercut, to render helpless.

词源

From the wartime practice of welding a metal spike into the touch hole of a cannon (generally done to enemy guns by raiders, or to one's own guns if forced to abandon them in a retreat), making the cannon impossible to fire.

来源：wiktionary