英语词汇“boss、shot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

boss-shot

释义

boss-shot dial. and slang.
[See boss v.³]
A bad shot or aim; fig. an unsuccessful attempt.
1890Farmer Slang, Boss, to miss one's aim; to make such a shot as a boss-eyed person would be expected to make. Boss-shot is a common phrase.1898Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., A bad shot with a stone is called a boss-shot.1912W. Deeping Sincerity xviii. 141 Harkness made a clutch at the bow, but Master Brandon was too quick for him. He retreated three paces, grinning. ‘Boss shot, that!’1919E. H. Jones Road to En-dor (1920) xxviii. 300 The student..made two boss shots before he hit the bull.
Also in corrupt form bosh-shot.
1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iii. i. 181 The Nazis chop people's heads off..and sometimes the executioner makes a bosh shot.1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder vii. 80 You haven't been having another bosh shot at the Crown Jewels, have you?

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