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Idiom take a knock to be badly affected by something.His reputation has taken quite a knock following the revelations published in his recent biography.
take a knockTo be diminished, injured, or negatively impacted in some way. Our profits are going to take a knock if we don't start reducing our manufacturing costs. He's taken some knocks out there tonight, and it looks like it's affecting his game. take a knock suffer a material or emotional setback.take a (hard, nasty, etc.) ˈknock have an experience that makes somebody/something less confident or successful; be damaged: His reputation has taken a bit of a knock since the newspapers printed stories about his private life. |