词汇 | many a fight is lost left in bed |
词源 | many a fight is lost (left) in bed. An adage that probably dates back, in one form or another, to the earliest days of profes- sional boxing but is rarely recorded in any dictionary. It advises that a fighter, or any athlete, who engages in sex the night before or close to a fight weakens himself and endangers his chance of winning. Athletes in many sports are divided on this. Muham- mad Ali, for example, said he didn’t believe it, while other fight- ers and trainers have endorsed the advice. A good marathon runner told me thinking of sex inspired him onward. |
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