英语词汇two strikes against you的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	two strikes against you
词源	two strikes against you. When you have two strikes against you, you are close to striking out in baseball, a game in which a batter has three missed chances before his turn at bat is over. Thus we have the widely used phrase to have two strikes against you—borrowed from baseball, no one knows exactly when— meaning perilously close to losing, or, in another sense, start- ing out with an unfair disadvantage. See also strikeout.
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