knock the spots out of (one)

To outdo another person. The phrase might have come from the once-common challenge of shooting the spots on a playing card hanging from a tree. Paul really knocked the spots out of me in that debate. I had to concede every point.

词组	knock the spots out of (one)
释义	knock the spots out of (one) knock the spots out of (one) To outdo another person. The phrase might have come from the once-common challenge of shooting the spots on a playing card hanging from a tree. Paul really knocked the spots out of me in that debate. I had to concede every point. See also: knock, of, out, spot Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: a penny for them no cigar (as) sure as eggs (is eggs) how about how/what about...? great minds great minds think alike be twiddling (one's) thumbs be twiddling your thumbs Heinz 57
随便看	take someone's name in vain take someone/something apart take someone/something off take someone/something on take (someone, something, or some place) by storm take (someone's or something's) place take (someone's or something's) pulse until then until we meet again until you are blue in the face untimely unto unturned unvarnished unvarnished truth unvarnished truth, the unwashed unwritten unwritten law unwritten rule up up a blind alley up a creek up against up against a brick wall