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A kick in the teeth 严重打击
kick sb. in the teeth 打击某人
Can Jeff's employee review wait until next week? His girlfriend just left him, and I don't want to kick him in the teeth.
Jeff的员工评估能等到下周吗？他的女朋友刚离...

介绍： 【微信公众平台】搜索“英语口语每天学”，获取独家免费英语学习资料
【新浪微博】@笨老撕

A kick in the teeth 严重打击
kick sb. in the teeth 打击某人
Can Jeff's employee review wait until next week? His girlfriend just left him, and I don't want to kick him in the teeth.
Jeff的员工评估能等到下周吗？他的女朋友刚离开他，我不想打击他。

kick v. 踢
I kicked the ball as hard as I could.
我用尽全力踢球。

get a kick out of sth.
从...获得极大乐趣
Even as an adult, I still get a kick out of building sandcastles at the beach.
成年后，我仍然喜欢在海滩上建造沙堡。

kick around
被乱丢于；被闲置于
There must be a copy of it kicking around the office somewhere.
办公室的某个地方肯定会有一份副本。

kick the habit 改掉旧习；戒除恶习
She used to be a heavy smoker but she kicked the habit last year.
她过去抽烟很厉害，但去年戒了。

今日挑战
When I realized what I had done I ___ myself.
A. could have kicked
B. have kicked
C. kicked
【下一期今日挑战正确答案↓】
[答案] B正确；out of the room, 从房间里出去；第一空用by，这里是介词，用法是by表示方式，比如by train坐火车，属于同一种用法；
[句意] 我抓住了那只狗的领子，把它拽出了屋子。