bare-knuckle
赤手空拳,赤手空拳的,赤膊上阵,赤裸裸的
Definitions
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- : wearing no boxing gloves: These are bare-knuckle kids who need to learn a higher level of boxing.
- : without gloves: a bare-knuckle brawl.
- : without regard for rules or niceties; rough-and-tumble: a bare-knuckle approach to judicial reform.
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- : without boxing gloves: He’s a scrappy guy who likes to fight bare-knuckle.
- : in a manner that bypasses rules and niceties: If we have to take on these land developers bare-knuckle, we will.
Examples
This year, a bare-bones welfare program will continue into the New Year without being updated.
“Bare [sic] with me on vlogmas,” she told her fans in a Tweet.
The further forward bare-boned science goes, however, the more forceful the counter- response.
Houses were evacuated and stripped bare, and civilians vanished at the sight of a truck.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for infants to be put to sleep in a bare crib to prevent SIDS.
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
Her little neck and arms were bare, and her hair, artificially crimped, stood out like fluffy black plumes over her head.