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"Knock into a cocked hat" nghĩa là gì?
02 Nov, 2020
"Knock into a cocked hat" -> nghĩa là đánh bại, vượt mặt.
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It’s worth reminding ourselves what counted as mainstream furniture design at that time. In the case of Aeron, the design may as well have come from another planet, when compared to the heavily upholstered (được phủ bọc) designs that it sought to (and eventually did) knock into a cocked hat. It looked so odd and met with such a negative reaction from its test focus groups that Herman Miller had doubts about launching it at all.
The arrival of Quinn's sculpture (điêu khắc) is an event, one that, through sheer verve and loveliness alone, seems to knock into a cocked hat the tired debate about what constitutes public art. This is public art, and let that be an end of it.
Typically, the Flag Police, though occasionally wrong, are rarely in doubt (nghi ngờ). This, however, is 2020. All bets are off. Routine quasi-official functions such as theirs have been knocked into a cocked hat.
How great is America when India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gets a standing ovation (tung hô) at the World Economic Forum and not Donald Trump? How great is America when its mighty destructive forces, “the like of which the world has never seen”, are knocked into a cocked hat in Afghanistan?
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