body blow | Idiomator

Meaning: A severelyinjuriousordamagingphysicalstrikeorimpact.2018October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, inLast Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎[1], archived fromthe originalon4 August 2022:The fight is not all one-sided.Lionis taking asavagebeating as the two flagships tradebody blowsalmost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.2021May 5, Drachinifel, 30:41 from the start, inBattle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?‎[2], archived fromthe originalon8 August 2022:There are numerous near misses and various secondary-battery shells flying and setting small fires and causing shrapnel damage to both ships... but these are somewhat irrelevant compared to thebody blowsthat they're dishing out to each other at the moment.(boxing)A hardpunchstruck to thetorso.1896,Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 11, inRodney Stone:He led at Berks's head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severebody blowin return.; (idiomatic,by extension)A serioussetback; atraumatizingevent whichpreventsorhinderscontinuation of an activity.1910,Stewart Edward White, chapter 43, inThe Rules of the Game:"I can hardly exaggerate thebody blowto the Service such a decision would give. Nobody will believe in it again."1955September 5, “Medicine: Cutter Verdict”, inTime, retrieved7 April 2014:The polio vaccination program took abody blowlast spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.1982December 11,Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, inThe Vancouver Sun(The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:And the government received a psychologicalbody-blowwith the crushing defeat of the Blakeney government in neighboring Saskatchewan.2009March 21,Mark Mazzetti, “The Downside of Letting Robots Do the Bombing”, inNew York Times, retrieved7 April 2014:[D]rone strikes . . . have deliveredbody blowsto Al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan without risking a single American soldier on the ground.

Examples:

EN: Two birds with one body blow.
ES: Dos pájaros de un tiro.
EN: The sinking ship of rock n roll is going to have a tough task recovering for the terminal body blow dealt it by the sex pistols.
ES: Al barco a la deriva que es el rock n roll le costara recuperarse de los daños causados por la separación de los Sex Pistols
EN: Wheras, it's sublime when it comes by surprise, the head and body blow up, go from ignorance to the unthinkable.
ES: Con lo maravilloso que es cuando llega por sorpresa, todo explota, pasas de la ignorancia a lo inimaginable.
EN: A failed confirmation for the Court is a body blow to a presidency.
ES: Si una confirmación falla, surgen problemas en una presidencia.
EN: What an incredible body blow!
ES: ¡Fue un golpe al cuerpo increíble!
EN: I see, they were hurt from your fall from that body blow in the first round.
ES: Sí, te lastimó el golpe al cuerpo la primera vez que te derribó.
EN: He's hurting from the body blow!
ES: ¡Los golpes al cuerpo están funcionando!
EN: Makunouchi throws a powerful right body blow!
ES: ¡Makunouchi lanza un tremendo golpe al cuerpo!
ES: Makunouchi da un derechazo explosivo al cuerpo.
EN: Not only does it block a potential body blow, it also does damage to the opponent's fist.
ES: No solo bloquea los golpes al cuerpo, sino que también daña los puños del golpeador.
EN: He went for another body blow!
ES: ¡Directa al cuerpo!
EN: The body blow.
ES: Golpe al cuerpo:
EN: I got a body blow!
ES: ¡Bajó la guardia!
ES: ¡Me alcanzó!
EN: A body blow.
ES: ¡Un golpe al cuerpo!
EN: Whoa, he returns the body blow!
ES: ¡Contraataca con un golpe al cuerpo!
EN: For now, I'm going to try for a body blow.
ES: Le apuntaré al cuerpo, ¿sí?

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