英语词汇brains knocked out的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	brains knocked out
词源	brains knocked out. To have one’s brains knocked out is not a modern Americanism for “to be badly beaten in a fight.” It dates all the way back to the late 16th century and the first Brit- ish bare-knuckle “fistfights,” as boxing matches were called at the time. See below the belt.
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