"Can snuff a candle with a pistol" nghĩa là gì?

Láo nháo là bắn bỏ. Photo by Elijah O'Donnell from Pexels

"Can snuff a candle with a pistol" = có thể bắn bay hoa đèn ở cây nến mà không làm tắt nến -> nghĩa là có tài bắn súng, bắn giỏi.

Ví dụ
Captain Spong has often told me he can snuff candles with pistol balls.

The people too who could snuff candles with a pistol have disappeared (biến mất) with the wicks (bấc) that required snuffing.

“Well,” Byron had replied, “I can swim across this river ... and I can snuff out a candle with a pistol ball at a distance (khoảng cách) of twenty paces (bước)... and I can write a poem of which fourteen thousand copies sell in one day.”

A correspondence (tương ứng), and ultimately a challenge ensued (xảy ra sau đó); and this evening, Mr. Forbes attended to decide the quarrel (cãi vã) with the most famed duellist (đọ súng tay đôi) in Great Britain, who can snuff you a candle with a pistol at ten paces distance, or cut off a button from your shirt-neck with a sword.


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