| 词源 |
knock out of the box. To cause a pitcher to be removed from the game by the successful hitting of the opposing baseball team. Today there is no such box to be knocked out of, the pitcher pitching from the pitcher’s mound. In baseball’s early days, in the mid-19th century, pitchers stood in a marked box that they had to throw from, hence the expression. The term was first recorded in 1891 and is today used outside of baseball to mean “to defeat or eliminate.” |