通译比典:Go_down_like_ninepins与Go_down_like_a_lead

Go_down_like_ninepins 对比 Go_down_like_a_lead_balloon

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【go down like a lead balloon】 —fail to have the intended effect; produce disapproval or disappointment:

His jokes about women drivers went down like a lead balloon.

Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase balloon goes up, the—used when a situation suddenly becomes serious or critical:

The balloon went up when I received a call stating that two foreigners had been detained by border guards.

【go down like ninepins】 —

1. be easily overcome:

I was a jack of all subjects and a master of none but General Papers went down before me like ninepins.

2. fail in large numbers:

During depressions business units went down like ninepins. The commercial banks of the time did little to help.

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