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Knockdown   /nˈɑkdˌaʊn/   Listen
Knockdown

noun
1.
A blow that knocks the opponent off his feet.



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"Knockdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... actually had an admirer. True, she did not say so outright; perhaps she was not even aware of it; but Laura gathered from her talk that a boy at her school, a boy some three years older than herself, had given her a silk handkerchief and liked to help her with her sums.—And to Laura this was the most knockdown ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... I go further. People tell us, 'Your modern theology is not in the Gospels.' And they say to us, as if they had administered a knockdown blow, 'We stick by Jesus, not Paul.' Well, as I said, I do not admit that there is no 'Pauline' teaching in the Gospels, but I do confess there is not much. And I say, 'What then?' Why, this, then—it is exactly what we were to expect; and people who ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Knockdown" :   knock down, furniture, piece of furniture, blow, article of furniture, collective



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