take the fall 的定义
- Incur blame or censure for another's misdeeds, as in She's taken the fall for you in terms of any political damage, or A senior official took the fall for the failed intelligence operation. This expression originated in the 1920s as underworld slang. It began to be extended to less criminal kinds of blame in the second half of the 1900s. Also see take a fall, def. 2.
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- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
- Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
- But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.