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Tekoälykääntäjä

Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (idiomatic) To acknowledge defeat or admit to a mistake; to cop a plea; to admit to a small error but not a larger one.

Esimerkit

  • I should like to take a job of that kind on a wager with him, or any other New Hampshire man, and if I did not come out a little ahead on the "home stretch," why then I would "acknowledge the corn," and own myself beaten.
  • Will the hon. gentleman acknowledge the corn? He does not do it. He is non-committal.
  • They had simply to "acknowledge the corn," round up, and — "vamoose"; then, so soon as the soldiers had gone back to the fort, there was no law to prevent their returning.

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