put/force somebody on the defensive

if you put someone on the defensive in an argument, you attack them so that they are in a weaker position 迫使某人处于守势 → go on the offensive

an issue that put the White House on the defensive

使白宫处于被动的问题

Examples from the Corpus

put/force somebody on the defensive• Motta always put him on the defensive.• This established licensing hours for the first time, and put brewers on the defensive.• You guys being a little bit aggressive at the beginning put him on the defensive.• The Sangh has put Congress on the defensive by forcing it to dilute its secular tradition.• These two seemed friendly enough, but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive.• This puts people on the defensive, and they may become silent or get angry.• Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive.• The Conservative achievement in the 1980s was to put Labour on the defensive by presenting Thatcherism as a continuation of historic Conservatism.

→ put/force somebody on the defensive at defensive2(2)

词汇	put/force somebody on the defensive
释义	put/force somebody on the defensive put/force somebody on the defensive if you put someone on the defensive in an argument, you attack them so that they are in a weaker position 迫使某人处于守势 → go on the offensive an issue that put the White House on the defensive 使白宫处于被动的问题 Examples from the Corpus put/force somebody on the defensive• Motta always put him on the defensive.• This established licensing hours for the first time, and put brewers on the defensive.• You guys being a little bit aggressive at the beginning put him on the defensive.• The Sangh has put Congress on the defensive by forcing it to dilute its secular tradition.• These two seemed friendly enough, but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive.• This puts people on the defensive, and they may become silent or get angry.• Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive.• The Conservative achievement in the 1980s was to put Labour on the defensive by presenting Thatcherism as a continuation of historic Conservatism. → put/force somebody on the defensive at defensive2(2)
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