go off the boil

British EnglishBrEWORSE to become less good at something that you are usually very good at 不如从前，生疏了

He’s gone off the boil after a tournament win in Dubai.

他在迪拜的锦标赛中夺冠后就开始走下坡路了。

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go off the boil• I knew as soon as I wrote it down I'd go off the boil.• Even extortion has gone off the boil.• Now it appears to have gone off the boil.• We're letting the kettle go off the boil.• The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer.

→ go off the boil at boil2(2)

词汇	go off the boil
释义	go off the boil go off the boil British EnglishBrEWORSE to become less good at something that you are usually very good at 不如从前，生疏了 He’s gone off the boil after a tournament win in Dubai. 他在迪拜的锦标赛中夺冠后就开始走下坡路了。 Examples from the Corpus go off the boil• I knew as soon as I wrote it down I'd go off the boil.• Even extortion has gone off the boil.• Now it appears to have gone off the boil.• We're letting the kettle go off the boil.• The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer. → go off the boil at boil2(2)
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