strike

Related to strike: strike back

strike

1. informal A failed attempt or effort. Both usages are an allusion to a strike in baseball, which is when a batter swings but fails to hit the ball. Their new console flopped almost immediately after being released, adding another embarrassing strike to the company's record.
2. informal An offense, misdeed, or instance of bad behavior. Tommy, that's your second strike so far today. One more, and I'm sending you to the principal's office!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

strike

n. a dose of drugs. (see also hit.) Just one strike, Bart, come on, just one. I’ll pay you tomorrow, Bart, come on, just one little strike. Anything, Bart. I really hurt, Bart.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one, two, three) strikes against (someone or something)
  • (someone or something) strikes again
  • be in the short strokes
  • bloody nose strike
  • call balls and strikes
  • go (out) on strike
  • go on strike
  • go out
  • happy medium
  • have two strikes against (one)
  • hit home
  • hit pay dirt
  • hit/strike home
  • hit/strike pay dirt
  • hit/strike the right/wrong note
  • it strikes me that
  • lightning doesn't strike twice
  • lightning never strikes (the same place) twice
  • Lightning never strikes twice
  • lightning never strikes twice in the same place
  • on strike
  • one more strike and (one's) out
  • one strike, (and) you're out
  • pay dirt, hit
  • pay dirt, to hit/strike
  • ring false
  • sound a (kind of) note
  • sound a false note
  • sound/strike a false note
  • sound/strike a note
  • strike
  • strike (one) (as) funny
  • strike (one) as (something)
  • strike (one) from the roll (of solicitors/attorneys)
  • strike (one) off the roll (of solicitors/attorneys)
  • strike (one's) fancy
  • strike (one's) flag
  • strike (someone or something) with (something)
  • strike (someone) dumb
  • strike (something) into
  • strike a (kind of) note
  • strike a balance
  • strike a bargain
  • strike a bargain/deal
  • strike a blow against (something)
  • strike a blow at (something)
  • strike a blow for
  • strike a blow for (something)
  • strike a blow for something
  • strike a blow for/against/at something
  • strike a chord
  • strike a chord (with someone)
  • strike a deal
  • strike a false note
  • strike a happy medium
  • strike a match
  • strike a note
  • strike a pose
  • strike a pose/an attitude
  • strike a sour note
  • strike an attitude
  • strike as
  • strike at
  • strike at (someone or something)
  • strike at the heart of (something)
  • strike at the root of
  • strike at the root of (something)
  • strike back
  • strike down
  • strike fancy
  • strike fear into (one)
  • strike fear into (one's) heart
  • strike fear into the heart of (someone)
  • strike fear, terror, etc. into somebody/somebody's heart
  • strike for
  • strike for (something)
  • strike from
  • strike from (something)
  • strike funny
  • strike gold
  • strike hands
  • strike home
  • strike home with
  • strike home with (one)
  • strike into
  • strike it lucky
  • strike it rich
  • strike lucky
  • strike me pink
  • strike off
  • strike oil
  • strike oil, to
  • strike on
  • strike on (something)
  • strike out
  • strike out at (someone or something)
  • strike out at (something or some place)
  • strike out for
  • strike out for (something or some place)
  • strike out on (one's) own
  • strike out on own
  • strike over
  • strike over (something)
  • strike pay dirt
  • strike sail
  • strike someone off the rolls
  • strike sparks off each other
  • strike sparks off one another
  • strike terror into (one)
  • strike terror into (one's) heart
  • strike terror into the heart of (someone)
  • strike the right chord
  • strike the right note
  • strike through
  • strike up
  • strike up a conversation
  • strike up a conversation (with one)
  • strike up a friendship
  • strike up the band
  • strike upon (something)
  • strike while the iron is hot
  • strike while the iron is hot, to
  • strike whilst the iron is hot
  • strike with
  • strike/touch a chord
  • strikes again
  • three strikes against someone
  • three strikes and (one's) out
  • Three strikes and you are out
  • three strikes and you're out
  • three-strike(s) law
  • three-strike(s) rule
  • touch a chord (with someone)
  • two strikes against
  • two strikes against someone/something, to have
References in classic literature
The remarkable thing, that first day of the strike, was that no one really apprehended anything serious.
The first thing I did this morning, as soon as I learned of the strike, was to order in the troops from the Presidio--three thousand of them.
"You couldn't get a longshoreman to land the machine on board, even if I could get the Lurlette over, which I can't, for the crew are members of the Coast Seamen's Union, and they're on strike along with the rest."
Bertie didn't care about the strike. He didn't care much about anything.
It's just what it claims to be, a general strike, and it's your turn to play, gentlemen."
Labour is doing nothing wrong in going out on this general strike. It is violating no law of God nor man.
The Strength of the Strong
"Your Honor, as I have testified, I did not strike a blow."
"If you did not strike a blow how comes it that he is so disfigured and injured?"
The Night Born
Everything went, during the strike, and the packers paid.
And meantime, agents of the packers were gathering gangs of Negroes in the country districts of the far South, promising them five dollars a day and board, and being careful not to mention there was a strike; already carloads of them were on the way, with special rates from the railroads, and all traffic ordered out of the way.
They made an offer to submit the whole question at issue to arbitration; and at the end of ten days the unions accepted it, and the strike was called off.
We'll all of us quit again!" And so the cattle butchers declared a new strike on the spot; and gathering their members from the other plants, where the same trick had been played, they marched down Packers' Avenue, which was thronged with a dense mass of workers, cheering wildly.
Yet ten years before, when there were no unions in Packingtown, there was a strike, and national troops had to be called, and there were pitched battles fought at night, by the light of blazing freight trains.
They were wanted to break a strike, and when it was broken they would be shipped away, and their present masters would never see them again; and so whisky and women were brought in by the carload and sold to them, and hell was let loose in the yards.
Jungle
Here we are, the talk just starting of going out on sympathetic strike for the mill-workers.
The Valley of the Moon