英语词汇lead with your chin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lead with your chin. The allusion here is to boxing, where if he doesn’t protect himself with a right- or left-handed lead, but sticks his chin out, leads with his chin, a fighter is exposing himself to a knockout blow. Leading with your chin or “sticking your chin out” has been slang for taking a big chance since the 1920s, while “taking it on the chin” has meant to suffer severe failure since about the same time. The expression take it as in “He can really take it,” that is, “he can deal with adversity well,” is probably a descendant of take it on the chin.

词汇	lead with your chin
词源	lead with your chin. The allusion here is to boxing, where if he doesn’t protect himself with a right- or left-handed lead, but sticks his chin out, leads with his chin, a fighter is exposing himself to a knockout blow. Leading with your chin or “sticking your chin out” has been slang for taking a big chance since the 1920s, while “taking it on the chin” has meant to suffer severe failure since about the same time. The expression take it as in “He can really take it,” that is, “he can deal with adversity well,” is probably a descendant of take it on the chin.
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