Mia Le
2020-08-18 09:08
Go down swinging/fighting informal verb phrase
The BK team beat us, but we went down fighting.
Even though the competitor is going to win the Spelling Bee contest, John is going down swinging.
To quit; to give up, stop doing something because you know that you cannot succeed; admit defeat
a joke, idea, or suggestion falls flat, meaning that it does not achieve the intended effect.
To begin to decline or deteriorate decline; to get worse very quickly
When an argument or a fight occurs, both parties involved are responsible for it.
The phrase starts with a "verb" , so we need to be careful about subject verb agreement.
In a boxing match, the loser would keep trying to land a blow on his opponent, even when he couldn't see any more, so when he finally collapsed, he was lauded as "going down swinging."
Do you see anything wrong?
to do something very badly, impropperly.
He make a pig's ear of miscalculating in Math so he got zero for this section.
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