10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFF ONE'S STROKE»
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Early 1600s] put one off one's stride Also, put one off one's stroke. Interfere with
one's progress, distract or disturb one, as in The interruption put her off her stride
for a moment, and she took several seconds to resume her train ofthought, ...
2
Concise English Dictionary
... make a stroke, as in swimming. — -stroke'-oar the aftmost oar in a boat: its
rower, whose stroke leads the rest; stroke play scoring in golf by counting the
total number of strokes played (rather than the number of holes won). — off one's
stroke ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
4 the government were clearly rattled by the campaign: unnerve, disconcert,
disturb, fluster, shake, perturb, discompose, discomfit, discountenance, make
nervous, put off, throw off balance, ruffle, agitate, put off one's stroke, upset,
frighten, ...
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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his ...
(RJ 3.1.192, Prince); put out 'to put off one's stroke': Presence maiesticall would
put him out: (LL 5.2.102, Boyet); 'to set sail': as when Wefirstput out to Sea. (Tem
5.1.227–8, Boatswain); rase out 'to eradicate': to race out Rotten Opinion, (2H4 ...
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Reader's Digest Oxford complete wordfinder
4 colloq. flatter; seek to influence by flattery, n at a stroke by a single action,
finishing stroke a coup de grace; a final and fatal stroke, off one's stroke not
performing as well as usual, on the stroke punctually. stroke of genius an original
or ...
Reader's Digest Association, 1996
Tutting' One Off One's Stroke This classic failure to comprehend comes from a
large, well- known club near Bagshot (not far from Windsor), which has extensive
sports facilities. The telephone operator put a call through to the golf shop, having
...
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Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases: Including Slang of the ...
To put off one's stroke. CRAPPO, A : French Crapaud. The name of a type of
improvised French trench-mortar. CRASH, A : The Air Force term for a fall. An
aeroplane brought down out of control. Any failure or misfortune. CRASH DIVE, A
: The ...
... Oil William Dargie to terms with reality in admitting that few of us are
Constables. This is an extreme and rather negative example. Let us take a more
positive attitude about avoiding situations liable, as it were, to put one off one's
stroke. 1 .
I know now that fights overhead, near-by bombs, fires, planes coming down
round about, aren't what put one off one's stroke; nor the rather mazed Germans
who come to be taken prisoner off parachutes; but if the door burst open and a
party ...
I know now that fights overhead, near-by bombs, fires, planes coming down
round about, aren't what put one off one's stroke; nor the rather mazed Germans
who come to be taken prisoner off parachutes ; but if the door burst open and a
party ...
