lose (one's) edge

To lose the skills, conviction, or energy that helped make one a success before. At one point I was considered one of the best tennis players in North America, but I lost my edge during college.

lose your edge

COMMON If someone or something loses their edge, they no longer have the special skills, qualities or advantages that they had in the past. As a company, they had lost their competitive edge. Its critics say the magazine is out of date and has lost its edge. Note: If a sword or knife has lost its edge, it is blunt.

词组	lose (one's) edge
释义	lose (one's) edge lose (one's) edge To lose the skills, conviction, or energy that helped make one a success before. At one point I was considered one of the best tennis players in North America, but I lost my edge during college. See also: edge, lose Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. lose your edge COMMON If someone or something loses their edge, they no longer have the special skills, qualities or advantages that they had in the past. As a company, they had lost their competitive edge. Its critics say the magazine is out of date and has lost its edge. Note: If a sword or knife has lost its edge, it is blunt. See also: edge, lose Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: drive (one) out of office force (one) out of office force out of office give (one) (one's) head give head give somebody their head give someone their head cooking for one 1FTR as one door closes, another one opens
随便看	the biter bit the biter gets bit the biter is bit the biter is sometimes bit the bitter end the bitter fruits the black dog the black market the black ox has trod upon (one's) foot the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe the black sheep the black sheep of the family the blahs the blame for (something) the blazes the blessed event the blind leading the blind the block is hot the bloom is off the bloom is off the peach see the error of (one's) ways see the error of your ways see the funny side (of something) see the funny side of something see the glass as half empty