"Pigeon-chested" nghĩa là gì?
"Pigeon-chested" = ngực bồ câu -> nghĩa là có ngực hẹp, ưỡn ra trước một cách không bình thường.
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The same goes for the “team full of kidders” identified by Jamie Redknapp in midweek. No doubt some of the older players are, in the nicest possible sense, a bunch of pigeon-chested decadents (người suy đồi) eking out their demotivating A-list contracts.
Bob: "That's not a booth (quán), that's a kiosk."Vic: "No it's not, there's no shelving (giá đỡ) in it."Bob: "No, a kiosk has a counter. Shelving, you're thinking of a pantry."Vic: "So what's a kiosk without shelving or a counter?"Bob: "That's a booth."Vic: "Exactly.” “You pigeon-chested little abattoir creeper.”
Why exactly has Willy, a veteran salesman with 34 years of pavement pounding under his belt, been turned over for promotion time and time again? Is it his rather troublesome (rắc rối) personality (tính cách) – his pigeon-chested chippiness, his propensity to cave to his mortal desires – or is it the colour of his skin?
Six feet four and pigeon-chested, Walker, who went on to complement Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson at their fiercest, had a front-on delivery style, bowling mainly stinging in-swing, varied by an occasional straight ball, to the right-hand batsman.
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