| 词汇 | box the compass |
| 词源 | box the compass. Mariners who boxed the compass literally named all 32 points of the compass, from north through east and back to north. One describes a complete turn in doing so, however, which is why, in the early 19th century, the expression to box the compass began to be used figuratively for a complete or full turn. |
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