jujitsu
柔术,柔道,日本柔术,日本柔术协会
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Definitions
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- : a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.
- : the use of an opponent's strengths or one's own weaknesses to accomplish one's goals: That was a kind of intellectual jujitsu, the way she handily won the debate.The town of Vacaville, in a prime example of touristic jujitsu, turned its isolation into an attraction in itself.
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- : to turn to one's advantage by exploiting one's own weaknesses or another's strengths, as in a social or political relationship: He deftly jujitsued the conversation to make my knowledge of the subject seem pretentious.
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Examples
He then followed up that intervention with an even more jaw-dropping act of forensic jujitsu, getting one of his would be killers to confess to the crime.
Last night, Lieberman began playing jujitsu with the charges in prime time.
And in these bad economic times, the Democrats are using it to achieve a kind of political jujitsu.
Moussa, a career diplomat and far more practiced public speaker, proved himself a master of verbal jujitsu.
Asra Nomani on how the Muslim community rose to her defense in a game of 'shame jujitsu.'
Nancy Snow, a professor of cross-cultural communications at California State University, Fullerton, calls it “shame jujitsu.”
The boys are also taught asanas (postures), sword and lathi (stick) play, and jujitsu.
He grabbed the extended right arm to give it a jujitsu move up and to the back of the body.
He reached forward in a jujitsu maneuver, grabbed a coat sleeve and a handful of suit coat.