"Be put through the hoop" nghĩa là gì?

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"Be put (someone) through the hoop" = Nhảy qua cái vòng -> buộc ai phải chịu thử thách gay go.

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“It felt good for those kids to see the ball go through the hoop. Hopefully, we can build on that as we go on down the stretch.”

A final set of changes confronted "overly picky" rules, he said. It would mean companies such as Air New Zealand would not be "put through the hoop" as an overseas investor (nhà đầu tư nước ngoài), he said. The airline was currently caught up as a overseas investor because it was more than 25 per cent overseas owned and would now be taken outside the regime (chế độ).

His baton (gậy chỉ huy) technique was remarkable, and his finest music-making characterized by exceptionally clear textures and purposeful phrasing, refined dynamics and fluid forward motion. He developed these virtues as a composer, and told an interviewer in 2008 “Basically I was trained as a composer not a conductor. I went through a very tough regime of writing fugues (soạn fuga) and passacaglias. I was really put through the hoop by a very demanding (đòi hỏi nhiều yếu tố) harmony and counterpoint teacher—to whom I shall always be grateful. He said ‘You may know how to wave your arms around, young man, but you don’t know anything about music and how it’s put together: write me ten figures.’”

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