| 词汇 | born with two strikes against him |
| 词源 | born with two strikes against him. It is uncertain when this expression was coined, but it clearly has its roots in baseball as an analogy to a batter only one strike away from striking out and thus failing completely. The words are usually said of some- one born with great disadvantages, or of someone with incredi- bly bad luck. |
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